In fulfillment of Guccione's mandate for stars, Malcolm McDowell plays Caligula, the third Emperor of Rome Peter O'Toole plays his father, the Emperor Tiberius and Sir John Gielgud plays their wary advisor Nerva. Every stress fracture can be felt in the "finished" film (now available in equally disjointed "unrated" and "pre-release" versions), an explicit fantasia seduced by its own astonishingly stylized take on pagan Rome, circa 37 AD-41 AD. Caligula's tortured development included a bizarre disconnect between art director Danilo Donati and the demands of the script, hard-core reshoots directed by Guccione (and Giancarlo Lui), and an international legal battle over the right to edit the film. The film had the potential for greatness in a script by Gore Vidal, but director Tinto Brass clashed with Vidal over rewrites, leading the writer to quit and demand his name be removed (though it would no longer be called "Gore Vidal's Caligula," the writer still receives the unusual credit "adapted from an original screenplay by Gore Vidal"). Though it keeps making money, the film hasn't gotten much better in any of its extant versions fans hold out hope that more footage will become available that will somehow bring the whole mess into focus. Caligula became more infamous for its widespread ineptitude than for its artistic innovation, but the title has proved lucrative from its initial release to its numerous re-releases on home video.
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Destined to go down in movie history (no pun intended), Caligula was intended by mastermind Bob Guccione to change the face (and tits and ass and loins) of cinema by joining legitimate film and hard-core pornography.
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