Caligula [1978] - The Citizen Kane of Porn?

[The_Archivist]

Originally Posted by jaygatsby777

Any Updates? How many penthouse pets were actually in the scenes? How much extra hardcore footage will be released?

No, no updates, sorry to say.

[jaygatsby777]

Originally Posted by The_Archivist

No, no updates, sorry to say.

Did Penthouse say they had rediscovered the orgy scene in full? How many penthouse girls actually had sex or sucked dick in the scene? What girls were the hottest?

[dracvla]

I'd love to see all this missingf hardcore footage too

[Baresfan]

Oh Henrietta Kellogg!

[Gordon3]

Sorry for the reply in this format, but I can't get the quote button to produce a quote in the advanced screen...

Anyway, it's great to hear that this project is moving forward (http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...4&postcount=23), after the initial news that the footage still existed in raw form & was saved by the new owners (http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...1&postcount=16).

[jaygatsby777]

Originally Posted by Gordon3

Sorry for the reply in this format, but I can't get the quote button to produce a quote in the advanced screen...

Anyway, it's great to hear that this project is moving forward (http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...4&postcount=23), after the initial news that the footage still existed in raw form & was saved by the new owners (http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...1&postcount=16).

Do they have all the unreleased hardcore footage as well? Did Lucky Fellows fuck all the penthouse pets?

[jaygatsby777]

Originally Posted by Gordon3

Citizen Kane of porn? No, because the known version is a Frankenstein of a film. It was an Italian film, with an Italian director, Tinto Brass, shot in a melodramatic style, explicit in both sex (though originally softcore) & violence (quite hardcore, though the gore effects were amateurish), and was political commentary on fascism. Guccione shot a bunch of hardcore, took the original edit from out of Brass' hands, clumsily edited the hardcore footage in, and came out with a failure.

However, there have been a lot of recent developments with the film. A German film student, Alexander Tuschinski, has been allowed to reedit the film based on what he thinks that Brass was trying to achieve. From https://avn.com/business/articles/vi...la-765798.html:





There are a lot more interesting details in the story, primarily about 400 boxes of film reels that were almost destroyed recently. It's likely that both the entire footage that Brass shot and the entire footage that Guccione shot are in that warehouse.

It also appears that this Alexander Tuschinski thinks that there is a significant work in that footage, at least from what Brass shot, so maybe a Citizen Kane of softcore is forthcoming?

For more on Tuschinski's vision, check out a short version of Mission:Caligula on Vimeo, and 106 pages of analysis of the film at http://www.alexander-tuschinski.de/analyses.html .

Any updates on if the unedited Orgy scenes are in there?

[jaygatsby777]

Did lucky Fellows fuck all the penthouse pets in the movie?

[jaygatsby777]

Originally Posted by bigtrain45

I'd rather just see a decent edit of the hardcore stuff. Those Penthouse models, like Jane Hargrave, Lori Wagner, Anneka de Lorenzo, and others, were all hot, in their primes, and had plenty of real sex. That's all I really want to see.

Agreed. I hope it's released ASAP