Immoral Tales: The ‘L'Âge d'or’ cut. Walerian Borowczyk, 1974.
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Edition screened: Included on the Arrow Blu-ray Immoral Tales, released 2014. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 125 minutes.
Summary: A dismembered lamb is found.
Details: An elegantly dressed lady is pursuing her stray lamb and finds him just after he has been torn apart. We see the body on the forest floor, and The Beast fondling some internal organs, 52:00-52:32.
This longer and earlier version of Immoral Tales, now known as the L'Âge d'or cut, includes The Beast of Gévaudan inserted as the third Tale:
The Tide (La marée), approximately 24 minutes
Therese Philosopher (Thérèse philosophe), approximately 22 minutes
The Beast of Gévaudan, approximately 22 minutes
Erzsébet Báthory, approximately 36 minutes
Lucrezia Borgia, approximately 21 minutes
The Beast of Gévaudan story was too sexually explicit to pass the censors, so Borowczyk removed the segment and expanded it to create the full-length feature, The Beast (1975).