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Newsgroups: alt.sex.movies
From: ggs@netcom.com (Gordon)
Subject: Re: asm FAQ 2/5: v3.65- Celebrity Skin
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 18:35:52 GMT

In article <Jg67QGm.cuyler@delphi.com>, Director <cuyler@delphi.com> wrote:

> 10.7 What about Stallone?
>

>     Whoever owned the rights to "Party at Kitty and Stud's"

>     capitalized on Stallone's new-found fame by re-releasing it

>     under the title "The Italian Stallion" (presumably a reference

>     to the protagonist's nickname in Rocky). The credits show that

>     the rights to this X film are owned by "Stallion Enterprises",

>     so they took this theme all the way.

> 

>     ...There is a new prologue where it is implied that

>     they took out the really fun dirty bits for the re-release.

The 'Italian Stallion' version of this film, as I saw it shown in an X-rated theater in the late 1970's, had a prologue by Gail Palmer. It was a simple narration, filmed with Palmer sitting in a seat in an empty movie theater. This prologue was also used separately as a 'Coming Attractions' trailer.

Palmer did seem to imply that there were a lot of things edited out. I remember, though, that when I saw the movie, I wondered if that were really true. It seemed more likely to me that it was a sort of venal attempt to take advantage of the success of 'Rocky' (released in 1976; 'Rocky II' in 1979) by taking an old softcore film that happened to have Stallone in it, and speciously trumping it up as a hardcore flick with the (perhaps non-existent anyway) explicit sex "edited out".

I recently rented a video of 'The Italian Stallion', and this narration was not present.

However, I did notice a promotional advertisement at the beginning of two "Gail Palmer" videos that I recently rented, 'California Gigolo' and 'The Best of Gail Palmer' (I say "Gail Palmer" with quotation marks because Peter v. A. states that Palmer may not have actually directed these films). The ad is an animation sequence consisting of the box covers of Palmer films assembling themselves into rows on the screen. One of the boxes is 'The Italian Stallion', and it has the same title art as the Stallone film.

Given that Palmer worked with/for the Mitchell Bros. in San Francisco during the late 70's, it seems possible that they're 'Stallion Enterprises'. They may have used that name as a dodge to give Stallone's lawyers a moving target.

One other intersting note on this film. The shop from which I rent most often is owned by a porn afficionado. He's been in the video business since the beginning, has most every porn flick that's been released on video, and he's archived them, giving his shop an excellent stock of old films. When I rented 'The Italian Stallion', he mentioned to me that in the mid-80's he'd gotten a letter from a law firm in New York, offering to buy his copies of the film, and asking him to name a price. His guess was that Stallone was trying to remove as many copies of the film from the market as possible.