Boom! (1968)
- Starring:
- Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, (more)
- Director(s):
- Joseph Losey
Synopsis of Boom!
Boom is taken from the Tennessee Williams play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. Flora Goforth (Elizabeth Taylor) is a foul-mouthed, booze-swilling, pill-popping, middle-aged woman near death. She spends her time swearing at the servants and looks forward to the end of it all, until poet Chris Flanders (Richard Burton) comes to her island home. Known in literary circles as the "angel of death," the poet gives the dying woman some measure of comfort in his presence -- while he takes comfort in her liquor cabinet and her jewelry. Often she is visited by the Witch of Capri (Noel Coward), a gossip-minded homosexual who appears to be Flora's only friend. Williams wrote the screenplay, which unfortunately proved ineffectual, as Taylor and Burton were seemingly caught up in their own world of wallowing in self-importance. The feature did little to boost the sagging careers of Burton and Taylor or to alter the public's negative opinions of their personal lives. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
Complete Cast of Boom!
- Elizabeth Taylor - Flora Goforth
- Noël Coward - Witch Of Capri
- Michael Dunn - Rudy
- Fernando Piazza - Giulio
- Howard Taylor - Journalist
- Richard Burton - Chris Flanders
- Joanna Shimkus - Blackie Black
- Romolo Valli - Dr. Luilo
- Veronica Wells - Simonetta
- Director(s):
- Joseph Losey
- Writer(s):
- Tennessee Williams
- Producer(s):
- Richard Macdonald, John Heyman, Norman Priggen
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