![]() ![]() At this point, Guccione, who had spent £17.5m on the movie, decided it needed spicing up. And it began promisingly enough with a learned screenplay by Gore Vidal.īut when the original film came out it was a critical flop. The film was supposed to chronicle the last four years in the life of the power-mad Caligula – the "viper in Rome's bosom" - whose brief reign as emperor ended with his murder in AD 41. Says a spokesman for Arrow: "When it came back uncut, we were stunned." But Sue Clark of the BBFC said: "Given that /Caligula/ is a film of historical interest, we felt we could pass it uncut." However, they've finally relented, a change of heart that has surprised the film’s distributors, Arrow Films. For more than 25 years, this raunchier version of the movie, which stars a youthful Helen Mirren ( pictured with fellow cast member Malcolm McDowell), has been considered too red hot to get past the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). ![]() An uncut version of the 1979 film Caligula, which was produced by the gold chain-wearing Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione, is finally to be released on DVD.
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