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Caligula

Country: Italy, Language: English, 156 mins

Original Title

Caligola
  • Director: Tinto Brass; Bob Guccione
  • Writer: Gore Vidal; Bob Guccione
  • Producer: Bob Guccione; Franco Rossellini

CGiii Comment

Fantastically bad with a fantastic cast - all duped into making this - aaah money talks.

The Vidal script...lest he never forget.

Worth watching for the unintentional comedy, the seriously bad acting - all inter-cut with porn.

It makes a mockery of the film industry and the pseudo-intellectual guff that surrounds it.

Very well done...in a bad way, obviously.


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The(ir) Blurb...

The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign - he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of Britain before meeting an appropriate end. There are various versions of the film, ranging from the heavily truncated 90-minute version to the legendary 160-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the imagination (though the hardcore scenes were inserted later and do not involve the main cast members).

Cast & Characters

Malcolm McDowell as Caligula;
Teresa Ann Savoy as Drusilla;
Guido Mannari as Macro;
John Gielgud as Nerva;
Peter O'Toole as Tiberius;
Giancarlo Badessi as Claudius;
Bruno Brive as Gemellus;
Adriana Asti as Ennia;
Leopoldo Trieste as Charicles;
Paolo Bonacelli as Chaerea;
John Steiner as Longinus;
Mirella D'Angelo as Livia;
Helen Mirren as Caesonia;
Rick Parets as Mnester;
Paula Mitchell as Subura Singer