Boom (1968) ( Boom! )

Boom (1968) (DVD) (*)

$25.99

Original Title: Boom!
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1968 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Joseph Losey

Written By:
Tennessee Williams

Actors:
Elizabeth Taylor ..... Flora 'Sissy' Goforth
Richard Burton ..... Chris Flanders
Noel Coward ..... The Witch of Capri
Joanna Shimkus ..... Miss Black
Michael Dunn ..... Rudi
Romolo Valli ..... Doctor Luilo
Fernando Piazza ..... Etti
Veronica Wells ..... Simonetta
Howard Taylor ..... Journalist

Synopsis:

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.

An aging millionairess, many-times divorced and living reclusively on a Meditteranean island, finds attraction for a dashing poet, who has a reputation for romancing dying women and taking their money.

Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 13 December, 2019.