AFU Party at Kitty & Stallone's

 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