The child-birth scene where Caesonia (Dame Helen Mirren) gives birth, was an actual child-birth, which was filmed in three takes using three different pregnant women extras and later edited together.

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After this movie was released, Anneka Di Lorenzo (a.k.a. Marjorie Lee Thoresen, a 1975 Penthouse Pet of the Year), who played Messalina, sued Bob Guccione, saying that his handling of the movie, mainly his adding of the hardcore sex inserts, had damaged her acting career by associating her with a hardcore porno movie. She won her case, but was awarded only four dollars and six cents (U.S. currency) in damages.

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The scene where Caligula (Malcolm McDowell) endures a nervous breakdown during the thunderstorm was written by McDowell.

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The movie was scheduled to be shown in two parts on the Brazilian television network OM in 1992. The first half was aired but, after protests, the courts banned the movie. The second half was never aired.

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Director Tinto Brass originally wanted to cast actual criminals in conditional sentence as the Roman Senators and ugly women in the sex scenes to shock the viewers. The result was Producer Bob Guccione firing Brass.

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Maria Schneider was originally supposed to play Drusilla, and actually started shooting some scenes, but she changed her mind while filming a sex scene with Malcolm McDowell. Deeply disturbed by her skimpy toga and the graphic incest scenes, she walked off the set bad-mouthing the production.

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After raping Proculus' wife, Caligula was meant to sodomize Proculus. Malcolm McDowell refused to do it, and Director Tinto Brass instead suggested the off-screen fisting, which is seen in the movie.

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At the time, this movie was the most expensive independent movie ever made.

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Peter O'Toole and Sir John Gielgud claimed to have been unaware hardcore sex footage was being shot for this movie.

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Writer Gore Vidal did not want credit for his work.

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Dame Helen Mirren described this movie as 'an irresistible mix of art and genitals'.

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According to Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole's first words to Sir John Gielgud on-set were, 'Hello, Johnny! What is a Knight of the realm doing in a porno movie!?'

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One of the few movies that film critic Roger Ebert admitted to walking out on (during the brothel-boat orgy sequence), calling it 'sickening, utterly worthless, shameful trash. If it is not the worst film I have ever seen, that makes it all the more shameful: People with talent allowed themselves to participate in this travesty.' He reviewed what he saw, giving it zero stars, and ended with a quote from another viewer who told him 'This movie is the worst piece of shit I have ever seen.'

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On his way to the set, Malcolm McDowell encountered Sir John Gielgud, who asked him if he'd seen the set. When McDowell replied that he was on his way there, Gielgud said, 'Oh, it's wonderful. I've never seen so much cock in my life.'

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After seeing this movie for the first time, Malcolm McDowell said 'I felt like a woman after she's been raped.' He later appeared on chat shows on U.K. TV, warning people not to go see this movie.

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A whopping seven dollars and fifty cents (U.S. currency) was the first-run admission price at its U.S. premiere, at the Penthouse East Theatre, New York City in 1980. Average prices of movie tickets back then were around three dollars.

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The principal cast members agreed to do voice re-recording sessions only if Producer Bob Guccione's inserts would be left out of the final cut. He obliged, and the actors and actresses worked with a cut of the movie that was free of the six-minute re-shoots. However, once they were done, Guccione proceeded to add the inserts back into the movie.

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Malcolm McDowell later reminisced how his car was attacked by a mob of angry extras and Production Assistants when he arrived on-set, because no money came in from New York City to pay their weekly salary. Only after Carla Cipriani led a strike that delayed the production, did cast and crew finally get paid.

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Several different versions of this movie have been circulated: (1) It was originally released in the U.K. with a running time of two hours and twenty-nine minutes, with the hardcore sex replaced by alternate footage inserted by the distributor. However, the latest U.K. release (and now legal version) has a PAL running time of one hour and thirty-eight minutes (approximately one hour and forty-two minute movie/NTSC) and is the same as the older R-rated version in the U.S. The original two hour and twenty-nine minute cut is now highly sought after. (2) A one hour and forty-five minute R-rated version was released in the U.S. in 1981. This version also used alternate footage and angles in the hardcore sex scenes and during scenes of graphic violence. (3) The official 'uncut' version runs two hours and thirty-six minutes, and includes about six minutes of re-shoots by Producer Bob Guccione. (4) In 1984, the movie was re-cut and re-released in Italy under the title 'Io, Caligola'. It ran two hours and thirteen minutes and was cut to two hours and three minutes by the Italian censors. When released on home video, some of the hardcore footage shot by Bob Guccione was reinserted into the movie. (5) The second (and current) R-rated version was released in 199, and used no alternate footage or angles, with the same shots repeating several times to mask the cuts in the movie. The rumors of a three hour and thirty minute version screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1979 are untrue.

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Under the supervision of Costume Designer Danilo Donati, three thousand five hundred ninety-two costumes were designed. The cast wore five thousand handcrafted boots and sandals. The wigs were made from more than one thousand pounds (four hundred fifty-four kilograms) of human hair, which was painstakingly sorted and matched.

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Contrary to popular belief, Gore Vidal and Director Tinto Brass did not disown this movie because Producer Bob Guccione inserted hardcore sex and graphic violence sequences, and changed the point of the movie. In reality, only five or six minutes of the two hour and thirty-six minute version of the movie were part of Guccione's re-shoot, that five or six minutes consists of the lesbian tryst in the secret room, and several inserts in the Imperial Bordello scene. Everything else was shot by Brass. Vidal disowned the movie because Brass and Malcolm McDowell changed the point of view of his screenplay. Brass disowned it because Guccione locked him out of the editing room (some in the industry suspect it was because Brass didn't want to use Guccione's hardcore inserts) after assembling the first forty minutes (which was probably disassembled shortly afterward). Guccione then proceeded to edit the movie, but he often chose shots that were never meant to be included (the many zooms, out-of-focus shots, et cetera), and also cut up certain scenes and put them in the wrong order. A prime example is Caligula's nightmare scene with Drusilla, which now occurs in a part of the movie that would have been quite impossible dramatically, and is actually the first half of an earlier scene, which occurs just after the credits (together, the two scenes were meant to be the opening of the movie, and the current opening in which Caligula and Drusilla enjoy a romp through a forest was intended for an entirely different purpose altogether, and was meant to occur much later).

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Peter O'Toole had stopped drinking alcohol before filming, but Producer Bob Guccione described O'Toole as being 'strung out on something', and said the actor was not sober during the entire filming schedule.

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The full-scale Roman vessel, complete with one hundred twenty hand-carved oars, was the largest prop ever built at that time. It was over one hundred seventy-five feet long and thirty feet high.

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This movie opened at number one at the box-office in Italy and U.S., grossing twenty million dollars in a week, until it was removed from theatres due to public petitions. According to Producer Bob Guccione, it would have entered into box-office history if it wasn't removed.

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Leonardo DiCaprio has cited this movie as an influence on his approach to the lead in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

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It is believed that over two thousand five hundred people took part in the making of this movie, including actors, actresses, extras, carpenters, artisans, and caterers.

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Peter O'Toole nicknamed Director Tinto Brass 'Tinto Zinc'.

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Peter O'Toole did not endear himself to Producer Bob Guccione when he told Guccione that he planned to launch his own magazine to rival Penthouse. It was to be called 'Basement', and would include such features as 'Rodent of the Month' and 'Toe Rag of the Year'.

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Contrary to popular belief, the infamous three hour and thirty minute pre-release version of the movie never existed. The mix-up came from an erroneous movie program printed for the first public screening of this movie at the Cannes Trade Festival (not to be confused with the Cannes Film Festival that occurs around the same time of the year) that stated that the entirety of the 'Caligula Screening' runs three hours and thirty minutes. What it forgot to say, however, was that the movie (in its two hour and thirty-six minute edition) and the one hour making-of featurette were shown back to back that night, thus creating the three and a half hour running time.

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Malcolm McDowell claims to have talked Katharine Ross out of taking the role of Drusilla.

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An ad in the Wednesday, July 28, 1976 issue of Variety, announcing that filming was to begin that day in Rome contained the words, 'What better proof that I am God. I have a husband. And a wife. I am all that is and shall ever be.' However, when this movie was finally released three years later, after numerous re-writes and re-edits, no mention of Caligula's husband, let alone his much reported homosexual tendencies, was included in the final product.

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To this day, this movie is still banned in Belarus.

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Sir John Gielgud was originally offered the role of Tiberius, but declined. He only accepted the smaller part of Nerva after being sent a letter by Gore Vidal.

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During production, Malcolm McDowell took members of the production to dinner at an expensive restaurant to celebrate England's win in a football match against the Italian team. He left the choreographer to pay for the meal, saying he had forgotten to bring enough money.

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Sir John Gielgud told Malcolm McDowell that he enjoyed the movie so much that he paid to see it twice.

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When editor Nino Baragli and producer Bob Guccione cut the movie together, several scenes were truncated and cut into the movie in a seemingly random order. A few examples of scenes made fragmented in editing: (1) The opening is a fragment of a scene that was meant to occur immediately following Tiberius' death (this is why Caligula is clean-shaven in this scene, but has a beard in the next). It was supposed to depict Caligula and Drusilla enjoying their new freedom as they no longer need to worry about being seen by Tiberius' informers. The scene is almost certainly shorter than it was intended to be, and thus is now a meaningless fragment. (2) The scene that was meant to be the opening is cut in half and moved around. In the final cut, the first half of this scene (which depicts Caligula expressing to Drusilla his worries about Tiberius killing him) occurs between Caligula's tour of the grotto and Nerva's suicide. The second half of the scene (where Caligula and Drusilla fool around and are caught by Macro) now immediately follows the opening credits. (3) When Caligula and Nerva walk down the path to Tiberius' pool, people are heard being tortured behind a curtain, which Caligula looks through at one point. The fragments of people being tortured several scenes later were meant to be intercut with the scene of Caligula and Nerva in the hall. Also, several scenes later, bodies are shown being taken off crosses and servants clearing the pathway. These were meant to act as establishing shots for the scene in the hall. (4) Mixed in the scene on Tiberius' pleasure grotto are shots of an orgy, some of which were filmed through mirrors. It's unclear what the purpose of these shots was, but they were obviously not meant for this scene (as they take place in a different room, and, thus, are cutaways to a location across the palace). (5) In the scene where Caligula, Caesonia, and Drusilla have sex, the movie includes inserts of a lesbian tryst that was one of the extra scenes shot by Bob Guccione. This footage replaces shots that made this scene necessary for the plot (the original concept had the palace informers looking through the peephole, thus explaining the close-ups of the moon face in the bedroom), as well as a different lesbian act featuring the ladies-in-waiting, shot by Tinto Brass. (6) The shot of Caligula being scared by a blackbird while playing with a rat was originally part of a much longer scene in which he sets up many small chariots for a race to entertain his daughter, and, thus, was also meant to be included somewhere in between the 'I am God' scene and the Imperial Bordello scene (along with several other cut scenes (such as the sacrificial scene, and the scene where Caligula claims himself to be King of the gods) and relocated scenes (such as Proculus' death)).

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Lori Wagner owns the only surviving costume from the movie, the white toga Malcolm McDowell wore in the frolicking scene.

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Prior to his hiring of Tinto Brass to direct, Producer Bob Guccione had been in negotiations with John Huston, and then Lina Wertmüller, who wanted to cast Jack Nicholson in the role of Caligula.

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Gore Vidal's screenplay had a strong focus on homosexuality, leading Producer Bob Guccione to demand re-writes, which toned down the homosexual content for wider audience appeal. Guccione was concerned that Vidal's script contained several homosexual sex scenes, and only one scene of heterosexual sex, which was between Caligula and his sister Drusilla.

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Peter O'Toole said that this movie was 'about as erotic as bath night on the H.M.S. Montclare.'

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At least two sequences were created completely in the editing room: (1) In the original conception, three men were seen talking and bathing in red mud. They are startled when Caligula first appears in the hallway outside Tiberius' pool. As Caligula walks down the hall, we see fragments of tortures that occur on the other side of the curtain. In the movie, the scene with the three men was moved after Nerva's death, not before, and entirely new dialogue was dubbed over the shot, making it appear that the men are discussing Nerva's recent death and Tiberius' imminent death. They appear to be startled, then there is a cut to Caligula across the palace, fantasizing about torture, intercut with the fragments of tortures that were meant to be about fifteen minutes earlier in the movie. (2) Unused bits from the scene where Chaerea, Longinus, and a few Senators discuss the possibility of Caligula dying from a fever were used to build a new scene toward the end of the movie where (it appears) the men plot Caligula's murder. Almost all of the dialogue in this scene was invented in the dubbing stages, and most shots obscure the mouths of each speaker.

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The screenplay was developed from an unproduced television mini-series treatment, written by Roberto Rossellini.

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In the original revised shooting script prepared by Director Tinto Brass and Malcolm McDowell, under the approval of Gore Vidal, Proculus was to have survived the film and later become a major supporting character, but Producers Bob Guccione and Franco Rossellini ordered them to re-insert his death scene into the script. That particular draft of the shooting script is available on the three-disc Special Edition DVD.

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According to a Director Tinto Brass interview, Maria Schneider and Isabelle Adjani screentested for the role of Drusilla. Schneider won the role, but left the production after a few days filming, due to an argument over the amount of nudity revealed in her costume during Tiberius' funeral scene.

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Gore Vidal's script presented Caligula as a good man driven to madness by absolute power. Director Tinto Brass' screenplay envisioned Caligula as a 'born monster'.

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The opening credits are shown over a gold coin representing the laureate head of Caligula looking left and weeping tears of blood. This was a promotional image coined by the producers and used extensively in posters, based on the orichalcum sestertius (a league of gold and other metals) that was struck in Rome in 37 to 38 A.D., to commemorate Caligula's ascension to power, and his address to the Praetorian Guard.

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Malcolm McDowell got along well with Director Tinto Brass, while Peter O'Toole immediately disliked Brass. Sir John Gielgud and Dame Helen Mirren were indifferent to Brass. They focused on their own performances.

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Although he sued to have his name removed from the credits, Gore Vidal received two hundred twenty-five thousand dollars for his work on the screenplay.

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According to Malcolm McDowell, while filming the scene where Tiberius stabs a drunken soldier, Peter O'Toole was supposed to ram this sword into a concealed rubber bladder that contained blood, wine and chicken gizzards to look like a man's innards. He placed the sword under the plate and snapped it up with such force, it hit the actor in the face and knocked him out. But the sword didn't pierce the bladder and the goat skin, with all the wine and gizzards literally bounced a few times. Then O'Toole quipped, 'I think she's dropped her fucking handbag!'

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While filming the scene where Caligula's army tries to invade Britain, Malcolm McDowell asked Director Tinto Brass why the soldiers weren't wearing armor. The director's reply was, 'Cock and arse'.

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The stadium spanned the length of three U.S. football fields, and featured a 'headclipper' that was five stories high and one hundred fifty feet wide.

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After Maria Schneider's abrupt departure, Katharine Ross was briefly considered for the role of Drusilla, but in the end, after some heavy lobbying by Director Tinto Brass, Teresa Ann Savoy ended up getting the part.

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Director Tinto Brass was fired during editing. In Italy, he brought a suit against Producer Bob Guccione, preventing the movie from being released without his permission.

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In Boston, Massachusetts, authorities seized this movie. Penthouse took legal action, partly because Producer Bob Guccione thought the legal challenges and moral controversies would provide 'the kind of (marketing) coverage money can never buy.' Penthouse won the case when a Boston municipal court ruled that the movie had passed the Miller test, and was not obscene. While the Boston judge said the movie 'lacked artistic and scientific value' because of its depiction of sex, and considered it to '(appeal) to prurient interests', he said this movie's depiction of ancient Rome contained political values which enabled it to pass the Miller test in its depiction of corruption in ancient Rome, which dramatized the political theme that 'absolute power corrupts absolutely'.

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Contradicting his reputation for appearing in mediocre movies just for the money, Orson Welles claimed he had declined a role in this film for 'moral reasons', despite being offered a very generous paycheck.

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This movie was a box-office hit when the number of theaters in which it played is taken into account. However, because of its limited run, it was a financial disappointment compared to the more successful movies of the time, even though it broke records in the individual theaters where it played. It has since gone on to become Penthouse's best-selling video.

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At one point, Peter Firth was considered for the title role.

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A Madison, Wisconsin District Attorney declined an anti-pornography crusader's request to prevent the release of this movie on the basis that 'the most offensive portions of the film are those explicitly depicting violent, and not sexual, conduct, which is not in any way prohibited by criminal law.'

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Atlanta, Georgia prosecutors threatened legal action if this movie was to be screened in the city, but experts testified in court on behalf of the movie, and Atlanta, too, declaring that this movie was not obscene.

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When a print of this movie was sent to London for classification by the British Board of Film Censors, the U.K. government seized the copy on the grounds that it violated the Obscene Publications Act. Eight minutes of the most explicit footage were cut before it could be considered legally acceptable to screen. A further three minutes were removed to receive an X rating by the censors. It wasn't until 2008 that the uncut movie could be legally available in the U.K.

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According to a 1981 behind-the-scenes documentary, because of the controversial nature of this movie, members of the international press were prohibited from entering the studio during filming.

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Charlotte Rampling said in an interview that she was also offered a part.

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Guido Mannari (Macro) was dubbed by Patrick Allen and Paolo Bonacelli (Chaerea) was dubbed by Joss Ackland in the English language version.

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Gore Vidal had originally scripted the role of Drusilla (at least in the early drafts of the screenplay) for his close friend, Claire Bloom.

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Because this movie was intended for release in English, and much of the dialogue was recorded in Italian, the soundtrack had to be looped. Peter O'Toole was reluctant to re-record his dialogue. He was kept away from the producers until he re-recorded his dialogue in a Canadian recording studio.

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Bob Guccione chose Tinto Brass to direct after being impressed with Salon Kitty (1976). When Brass was hired, he was in the middle of a lawsuit to prevent that movie from being released in an edited version.

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At the end of the production, Malcolm McDowell gave his dresser a pendant bearing her name, but it was misspelled and she gave it back to him. McDowell offered her a signet ring, a prop from this movie. She refused because it belonged to the production company.

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This movie is included on film critic Roger Ebert's 'Most Hated' list.

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Art Director Danilo Donati had to scrap some of his more elaborate original ideas for the sets and replace them with such surreal imagery as bizarre matte paintings, blacked-out areas, silk backdrops and curtains. This resulted in significant script changes, with Director Tinto Brass and the actors and actresses improvising scenes written to take place in entirely different locations, and sometimes shooting entirely new scenes (such as the frolicking scene that opens the movie) in order to show progress while the incomplete or redone sets were unavailable.

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Citizens for Decency through Law, a private watchdog group which protested against movies which it deemed immoral, sought to prevent this movie's exhibition in Fairlawn, Ohio on the grounds that it would be a 'public nuisance', leading Penthouse to withdraw the movie from exhibition there to avoid another trial. CDL's lawyer advised against attempting to prosecute Penthouse for obscenity, and instead recommended a civil proceeding, because the movie would not be placed against the Miller test. The Penthouse attorney described the Fairlawn events as being driven by conservative morality reinforced by Ronald Reagan's Presidential victory, stating, 'Apparently, these extremists have interpreted a change by administration to mean a clarion call for a mandate to shackle the public's mind again.'

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Orion Pictures offered to pick up this movie at the suggesting of its distribution partner, Warner Brothers. Producer Mike Medavoy was an executive at Orion Pictures, and in his book 'You're Only as Good as Your Next One', he recalled that he and another studio head were offended with what they saw. Producer Bob Guccione knew it, and all he could say to the executives is if they liked the art direction. 'You bet we did', wrote Medavoy, 'But that was about all we liked.'

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After a full nine weeks of editing had begun, Tinto Brass arrived at work one morning to find that the lock had been changed, that a summons had been affixed to the door, and that his mammoth Prévost editing machine was sitting outside in the snow.

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Favorite movie of popular on-line reviewer Brad Jones.

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In 1979, when Bob Guccione tried to import this movie's footage into the U.S., customs officials seized it. Federal officials did not declare the movie to be obscene. When this movie was released in New York City, the anti-pornography organization Morality in Media unsuccessfully filed a lawsuit against these federal officials.

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Dame Helen Mirren and Sir John Gielgud appeared in this movie. They portrayed the same character, Hobson, in an Arthur-related project: Gielgud played Hobson in Arthur (1981), for which he won an Oscar, and had a cameo in Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988), and Mirren played Hobson in Arthur (2011).

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A Yugoslavian stallion named 'Davide' was cast as Caligula's horse, Incitatus.

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This movie was cut by ten minutes by the BBFC (British Board of Film Censors) when released theatrically in the U.K. in 1980. it has since been released uncut in the U.K. on the Region 2 DVD and Blu-ray.

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BANNED IN AUSTRALIA: In 1981 the ban was lifted, and a modified version with the rating R18+ was allowed. In 1984 the uncut version was released, and it received an X18+ rating. Later in 1984, the ACB decided to forbid films containing sexual violence and the film was re-banned. Ever since, the film's rating has fluctuated between RC (Refused Classification) and R18+ (depending on the version). In 2010, the ACB refused classification for the 'Imperial Edition' DVD of Caligula; it was also refused in 2005.

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While Tinto Brass was working on the project, Fiorenzo Carpi was signed on to compose the musical score for this film. Carpi submitted in some skeletal drafts that he would not work on any further until Brass was done with the editing. After Brass was fired from production, Franco Rossellini hired composer Franco Mannino to make a new score for the film, which was rejected by Penthouse. The scores of both composers are now considered mostly lost.

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Sylvia Kristel auditioned for the role of Drusilla, but turned it down.

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Malcolm McDowell and Dame Helen Mirren appeared in O Lucky Man! (1973).

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When a print of this movie was imported to the U.K. for classification by the BBFC in April 1980, it was seized by Customs and Excise, as it might contain material that violated British law. After negotiations with BBFC and Customs and Excise, it was agreed to bring the print to the premises of the BBFC, where it was viewed by the censors of the BBFC, together with customs officers and two lawyers, including one from the Treasury Council to point out the scenes that had to be removed in order to make the movie comply with British law, which meant that eight minutes had to be cut. However, another three minutes had to be cut for the movie to comply with the BBFC's censorship standards, and to be awarded an 'X' certificate.

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One of at least five movies shot during the late 1970s through to the late 1980s in which a character was buried in sand or ground, with only his head shown above ground level. It was Scott Glenn in The Challenge (1982), whose character Rick spends five days in it. The other actors and movies were: various extras in this movie, Ted Danson in Die unheimlich verrückte Geisterstunde (1982), Bryan Brown in the 1989 filmed Harrys größter Coup (1991), and David Bowie in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983).

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