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- From: linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Peter van der Linden)
- Subject: AFU Party at Kitty & Stallone's
-
- [As I mentioned a year ago, in March 1992]
- Sylvester Stallone did indeed get his first movie acting role in a porn
- movie, called "Party at Kitty and Stud's". This movie came out in
- 1970, when Sly was but 24 years old, living in Hell's Kitchen, New York
- City, and working a variety of menial jobs (including cinema usher)
- while trying to break into the movies. At that time (and still to a
- lesser extent) New York City was the hub of US porn film making.
- Stallone is the leading man in this X film, and he later acknowledged in
- a Playboy interview that he was paid $200 for his role. Unlike his
- later films, Stallone seems to have had no part in directing or
- producing "Party at Kitty and Stud's".
-
- Stallone made the most of his break, quickly entering mainstream movies
- with a role in Woody Allen's "Bananas" the next year. He appeared in
- six more films before "Rocky" in 1976, which shot him right to the
- top. The canny Sicilian wrote the script for "Rocky", and sold it for
- a very low price, on condition that he star in the movie and receive a
- share of the profits. "Rocky" went on to win 3 Oscars, including best
- picture. It made Stallone's movie career.
-
- 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.
-
- "Party at Kitty and Stud's/The Italian Stallion" started life as a
- genuine pornographic X film, though it has been brutally edited down --
- probably at the time it was retitled and re-released. There is a new
- prologue where it is implied that they took out the really fun dirty
- bits for the re-release. It now completely lacks any semblance of a
- plot, and all hard-core exhibitions, so is somewhat hard to follow.
- For example, a large mastiff dog appears at one point, but disappears
- equally as rapidly, leaving the viewer confused about what was to
- happen next. "Party" seems hilariously dated in some ways too, as it
- is rife with 60's slang.
-
- At one point Kitty confides to one of her friends that Stud is "so far
- out" and "animalistic". At another point Sly enjoins Kitty to "be
- careful! You bit me last time." Kitty replies "I'll be velvet-mouthed
- on your shank of love!" before dissolving into an unscripted fit of
- giggles only partially concealed by burying her head on Stallone's
- shank of love. Stallone's best scenes are the ones where he is naked
- (which is nearly all of them). The highpoint of the film is probably
- where Stallone assists three women one after the other, although all
- the overt details are edited out, leaving just the moaning and
- groaning.
-
- Sly-connoisseurs will note that he has a 4 inch scar on his left thigh
- under his butt. Far from being a stallion, Sly is actually a man of
- modest endowment. His muscular frame, lacking its customary coat of oil,
- looks remarkably unimpressive. Some people claim to see undertones of "Rocky"
- in "Party", but I couldn't detect any myself, unless they mean the scene
- where Sly lightly beats Kitty with his pants belt. Sly lacks his trademark
- sneer, and talks normally in "Party".
-
- It is not unknown for a porn movie performer to cross over into
- mainstream cinema. I believe Traci Lords has now renounced her porn
- film past, and can be seen in minor roles on tv e.g. as a dental assistant
- on "Married With Children".
-
- "Party at Kitty and Stud's" has the following credits:
- Stud Sylvester Stallone
- Kitty Henrietta Hohn
- director Morton Lewis
- producer Stanley Marxx
- script editor Gail Palmer
- screenplay Milton Lewis
- photography Rolph Laube'
- music Kay Leodel
-
- The video is available for rental from The Video Source, 1401 Foxworthy
- Ave, San Jose, California (tel 408 265-4002).
- You can also find it at Videoscope, El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA.
- I can't honestly recommend it, but it has a certain novelty value. Perhaps it
- is best appreciated when played in a (heh!) double-header with "Rocky".
-
- Peter van der Linden
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