Boom! (1968)
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8% of critics liked it
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53% of users liked it
(437 ratings)
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… More 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
- Directed By
- Joseph Losey
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
PG,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1968 Wide
Critic Reviews
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, TIME Magazine
This film makes it official: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor have given up acting for entertaining. Or rather, trying to.
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Variety Staff, Variety
Taylor's delineation of the lead role is off the mark.
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Tom Milne, Time Out
It gets Burton and Taylor, comfortably matched, making nonsense of theme and relationships, and giving monotonously unsubtle performances (she screeches, he glooms).
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
Those things that in the earlier versions of the work had been metaphorically stylized, have been made stunningly literal in Boom!
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
There are different kinds of bad movies. Some are simply wretchedly bad, like well, you know. Others are bad but fascinating and Boom! is one of these.
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Cast
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Elizabeth Taylor
as Flora Goforth
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Richard Burton
as Chris Flanders
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Noel Coward
as Witch Of Capri
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Joanna Shimkus
as Blackie Black
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Michael Dunn (I)
as Rudy
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Romolo Valli
as Dr. Luilo
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Fernando Piazza
as Giulio
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Howard Taylor
as Journalist
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Veronica Wells
as Simonetta
