Boom ! by Joseph Losey
Boom! (film)
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| Directed by | Joseph Losey |
| Produced by | John Heyman |
| Screenplay by | Tennessee Williams |
| Based on | The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore by Tennessee Williams |
| Starring | Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton Noël Coward |
| Music by | John Barry |
| Cinematography | Douglas Slocombe |
| Edited by | Reginald Beck |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time
| 113 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English Italian |
| Budget | $3–10 million[1][2] |
| Box office | $2 million[1] |
Boom! is a 1968 British drama film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Noël Coward, directed by Joseph Losey, and adapted from the play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore by Tennessee Williams.
Plot[edit]
Flora 'Sissy' Goforth (Taylor, in a part written for an older woman) is a terminally ill woman living with a coterie of servants in a large mansion on a secluded island. Into her life comes a mysterious man, Christopher Flanders, nicknamed "Angelo Del Morte" (played by then-husband Burton, in a part intended for a very young man). The mysterious man may or may not be "The Angel of Death".
The interaction between Goforth and Flanders forms the backbone of the plot, with both of the major characters voicing lines of dialogue that carry allegorical and Symbolist significance. Secondary characters chime in, such as "the Witch of Capri" (Coward). The movie mingles respect and contempt for human beings who, like Goforth, continue to deny their own death even as it draws closer and closer. It examines how these characters can enlist and redirect their fading erotic drive into the reinforcement of this denial.
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