About Michael Edwards
Location: Dallas, Texas
Occupation: Knife Sharpener
Bio: I was born in 1518, in the village of Glenfinnan, on the shores of Loch Shiel...and I am Immortal. (cough…cough) (You know, writing a silly origin like this makes me think of the time I was at a Star Trek Convention and saw a balding, overweight guy in a Starfleet Uniform on a stage say, “Hello, I am Captain Hochsteader from the USS Klondike.” I wanted so badly to say, “Noooo, you’re Melvin Goldfarb, Accountant from Plano.”)
Favorite movie: Hmmmm... It's a toss up between Schindler's List and Cabin Boy. (Kinda makes you wonder about my ability to review DVD’s don’t it?). Actually, if I use the criteria I used above of “never get tired of watching…etc…”: The Road Warrior, The World According to Garp, Creator, Terminator 2, Somewhere in Time (If I wanna get reaaallly weepy)
Greatest video game accomplishment: Buying and beating the first ever home PONG game. Haven’t really played much else… Well, there was the time I died on the first level of MediEvil. Or the time I died at the beginning of Resident Evil. Of, course my favorite was dying while playing Tetris.
If you could have any one superpower, what would it be?: The power of Super Speed. There just never seems to be enough time to do everything I want to get done. And I can never get anywhere fast enough. (However, this would have to be combined with certain degrees of Super Agility and Invulnerability so as not to have to wear Band-aid Brand Nuclear Knee-Pads.)
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Everyone knows that in order to make it in Hollywood, most actors and actresses have to pay their dues. Some have to start out in crappy B-movies in the hopes of being discovered, while others languish in the world of porn and become famous only to a select audience. Of course the world of pornography today offers a lot more to some of its top stars in the way of fame and fortune, it was a much different world back in the 1970’s.
Jumping into the ‘way back machine’, let me introduce you to an unknown actor by the name of Sylvester Stallone. The guy was big, beefy and had a way with monosyllabic line delivery. In other words, he was perfect for the world of porn. Eager to get some kind of work, the young Stallone accepted and offer of $200 to spend two days dallying with a variety of chicks on film. Originally titled The Party at Kitty and Studs, this odd little piece of pornographic history quickly disappeared. That is, until the success of Rocky brought Sly the notoriety he always dreamed of.
Eager to jump on the champ’s bandwagon, The Party at Kitty and Studs was re-edited (to make it a little less hardcore) and re-released as The Italian Stallion. It still didn’t do really well except as a novelty. Yet the infamous video still exists and is getting a whole new lease on life as Cinema Epoch is releasing a brand new transfer that was taken from the original 35mm negative. So before I get into the rest of the review I will mention that the overall video and audio looks fairly good, even if the film’s participants… don’t.
In The Italian Stallion, Sly plays Stud… a……. uhhh…. stud, who shares an apartment with his girlfriend Kitty (Henrietta Holm). The pair (and I mean Kitty and Stud, not her ‘pair’) share an interesting sex life full of bad dialogue, beatings with a belt and even a little bloodsucking (from a cut). However even with as much sexual attention as Stud gets it’s still not enough. He brings home a bevy of beaut… uhh…. women to help alleviate his stress. Al of this brings us to the party of the original title, which allows for quite a bit of rowdy sexual excess.
While the movie does act as a novelty in that we get to see Sly involved in some unusual sexual escapades, but beyond that it doesn’t really offer a lot for those who want their porn films a little more explicit. Then there’s the matter of the cast. The combination of low budget and the fact that it was made in the 70’s promises viewers that the naked bodies won’t be all that hot. And it delivers in that promise. You won’t find any Jenna Jamison types here. Everyone’s fairly average looking, as if you invited your own neighbors over to get naked. (Not my neighbors though… they’re rednecks and they’d look a lot more like naked Wilburs… if you catch my drift.)
The one thing missing from this little oddity of a DVD are any kind of special features. There is a trailer which includes the film’s editor talking about Sly’s fame, but that’s it. I was kind of hoping for an interview with the Italian Stallion talking about how proud he is of the feature finding a new life on DVD (wink). Still, it is kind of a fun and funny movie to watch for it’s 70’s kitsch and the really young Rocky letting it all ‘hang out.’
