The Castle of Lucretia, Uncensored (1997)

Description: AKA: Lucretia una stirpe maledetta [Italian original]
This is an adult fantasy about kings, queens, & other denizens of a castle. The sexual shenanigans take place in ancient times, and the focus is on a particularly adventurous princess called Lucretia (or Lucrezia, depending on which language you see it in).
Scene Breakdowns
Scene 1. Rossana Doll, Sarah Louise Young
Scene 2. Sarah Louise Young, Roberto Malone
Scene 3. Sarah Louise Young, Francesco Malcom
Scene 4. Rossana Doll, Sarah Louise Young, Roberto Malone
Scene 5. Rossana Doll, Roberto Malone
Scene 6. Erika Bella, Roberto Malone
The original was released in Italy by F.M. Video as 1 movie. Some scenes were edited from the American version, while others were added. Jean-Yves Le Castel has a scene in the American release, while Francesca Ray was deleted from the American release.
Review:
CASTLE OF LUCRETIA is a very well-made Italian porn film hailing from the big-budget era when shooting on 35mm was still an option. It's highly recommended for Sarah Young fans.
The British porn bombshell had a brief career in the '90s, making hundreds of shot-on-video classic XXX vignettes lensed by her better half, Sascha Alexander. Fortunately, she was also featured in a half dozen or so actual movies, all of which have preserved her beauty for latter-day porn fans.
Though her shortcomings as an actress are clearly evident, Young was well cast as LUCRETIA BORGIA, because she projects an innocence (no matter how hot & heavy the sex action gets) that makes her character's underlying evil more impressive. As brother Cesare Borgia, Roberto Malone is a good choice, he being all-baddie.
Presented in two parts, like her DECAMERON TALES epic, LUCRETIA runs a whopping 149 minutes long, with a dozen separate and lengthy sex scenes giving the fans more than their money's worth. This was the '90s precursor format (in America, Carlos Tobalina's FLESH AND LACES diptych is an '80s counterpart) to the 21st Century practice of original videos now routinely running three or four hours long, and priced steeply accordingly. It translates into fans getting to see Sarah doing her XXX thing for roughly two hours -who could complain?
Pic opens with her dreaming in bed, of a lesbian liaison with her maid Rossana (beautiful blonde Rossana Doll). These actresses co-starred again for director Mario Bianchi ("Nicholas Moore") in SARAH ON HEAT, one of her few titles I've been unable to track down anywhere.
Second sex scene introduces the film's incest theme, as bro Cesare (Malone) has a torrid romp in bed with Lucretia, professing his life-long love for her. He throws a birthday party for her, and while the guests are being entertained by a juggler, a martial arts expert and an exotic dancer, Lucretia slips away to seduce a young boy after they've made eye contact at the bash.
SPOILERS:
After servicing the big-dicked youth, Lucretia pretends that he tried to rape her, and Cesare chokes the lad to death. It turns out the siblings were just funning in their own peculiar way, and Cesare chucks the poor kid out the window, to be considered a suicide.
After the party the Borgias have a threesome with Rossana that covers as many bases as possible: lesbian sex, anal sex, sixty-nine, copious money shot and even a bukake ending.
Sex scene #5 has Cesare slapping Rossana around, then pleasuring her.
For vignette #6, we see Cesare attending to his official duties, listening to pleas from his subjects. Erika Bella, a fabulous beauty in her own right (whose figure closely matches that of Sarah's), complains that her husband is impotent and can't service her properly, so Cesare decides to check out her equipment to see if it will stimulate him. No surprise -it does, and after another money shot he pledges to help her out in similar fashion in future.
Meanwhile, Lucretia has fallen in love with Squire Erminio, and the duo slip away to his cottage for a fascinating sex scene. Director Bianchi sets it in one of those re-created homes for tourists, replete with over a dozen white statues of typical peasants of a bygone era, all clad in period costumes. Lucretia and the squire have a thorough sex outing, in many positions, all as the manikins look on, framing the action. It's the kind of creative setting that makes all the difference in a sex movie.
For scene #8, it's more incest, with Lucretia favoring a between-the-breasts gambit. His money shot is delivered into a martini-shaped wine glass, for sis to drink the mixture.
Returning to the cottage, Lucretia finds Erminio hanging around, literally, as Cesare has discovered her love affair and killed the poor bloke. He locks up his wayward sister in a dungeon, and has another liaison with Rossana, only this time delegating the sex to a well-hung, bearded guard - he was a bit tired out by this time.
Yet Malone recovers nicely, having sex scene #10 with a short, slim brunette who's a virgin (until he gets hold of her). Next visiting the dungeon, Sarah is chained and shackled at the wrists, being whipped by a black-caped femme. Cesare services her in bondage and ponders her fate.
Erika returns but is tortured, same shackles/dungeon as Lucretia, for some trumped-up indiscretion, leading to the femme torturer and Cesare having a three-way with her.
Finale is a dinner party with Lucretia ,let out of captivity and dressed to the nines to meet her public. She has black-clad henchmen suddenly appear and knife everyone present, including (and especially) brother Cesare and Rossana. Dying, Cesare looks forward to an evil eternity with her and even gets the last laugh.
This sex spectacular is well-mounted (pun intended), with lavish costuming, attractive sets replete with murals, tapestry and all the trimmings, and careful lighting and photography. It's hardly a big-budget enterprise, but a more-than-solid outlay for a porn film. Director Bianchi keeps the sex scenes moving through quality editing and lots of variety, factors that are currently lacking in the cheap-jack "real-time video" lensing of recent porn.
Nearly all of the dozen scenes involve and emphasize anal sex, clearly de rigeur for a European film when this was made. The English dubbing is adequate, but the film's one downside is a lousy musical score, anachronistic and synthesized.