Product Details

• Actors: Forman Shane, Deirdre Nelson, James Brand, Sydney Carlysle, Mia Coco
• Directors: Bethel Buckalew
• Writers: Jim Macher, William Shakespeare
• Producers: Bethel Buckalew, Harry H. Novak
• Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 1.0)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NC-17
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: August 27, 2002
• Run Time: 179 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000069HZ1
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #28,265 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet / The Notorious Cleopatra" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

It's Shakespeare with skin in "The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet" (1969, 92 min.), an outrageously bawdy, sexed-up version of the world's most famous love story! A crackpot cast of mostly busty redheads performs the immortal tale of two lovers who end up loving just about everyone amidst a non-stop barrage of dumb jokes, gleeful nudity, rambunctious sex scenes, whipping, whipped cream, Derrick the Horny Hunchback, and literature's most famous line of dialogue, "Sock it to me!" "The Notorious Cleopatra" (1970, 87 min.) - Sexually voracious fat slob Caesar sends Marc Antony to bring the notorious Cleopatra back to Rome. Though he's ordered to keep his hands to himself, Antony quickly falls under the Queen's spell (no surprise since she's played by the black and beautiful Sonora), leading to a virgin sacrifice, an Egyptian orgy, the Ides of March, and a shocker of an ending in this wacky sex comedy you won't see on the History Channel anytime soon!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Sock It To Me!", December 26, 2006

By	Carlos Burning "Carlos" (North Syracuse, USA) - See all my reviews

This 1969 cult-hit amounts to a bawdy parody of Shakespeare's early tragedy. While the film dispenses with nearly all the play's poetry it has an appeal of its own--a sense of joyfulness or playfulness running through all its orgies, nudities, sexual frolics. It reminds me most of a Mozart opera--without the music, but with much greater explicitness. Perhaps if we were all blessed with more beauty or more imagination, life itself would resemble this fantastic, witty, uninhibited little film.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely, Unenhanced Actresses, November 9, 2006

By	Elfstone (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This is a classic from the late sixties. Zefferelli's Romeo & Juliet had just won several awards; Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In was the most popular comedy/satire show on TV. So, this film was set up in the same format as Laugh-In, with cut aways to cameos, and liberally peppered with Laugh-In's catch phrase "Sock it to me!" It was a simpler age, when all a naked redhead had to do in a movie was--well--be naked. And all natural, of course. The Cleopatra flick was OK.

11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not weird enough, August 29, 2003

By A Customer

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i bought this cause it is soft porn, a double feature, and had plenty of extras. unfortunately...

the soft porn is really soft, very little of it is actually erotic or sexy. both films fail to capitalize on these aspects because of their inherent campiness.

i actually preferred Cleo over R&J, but not by much. neither are very good but at least Cleo had a little more sensuality, more "love" scenes, while R&J was almost a comedy(an unfunny one at that)

the extras are ok, but unless you're a die hard fan or an extreme collector, you'll probably access them just once.

overall, if you're looking for high eroticism or classic porn, look elsewhere. if you're just looking for something different, then this just might be weird enough to hold your interest. personally, i found it to be too run of the mill to be anything special.