Boom!
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Joseph Losey
Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Burton
Noël Coward
Joanna Shimkus
Michael Dunn
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Flora Goforth, a millionairess widowed six times, retires each summer to her private island in the Mediterranean. This summer, however, she learns that she is going to die and begins to dictate her memoirs to Blackie, her abused secretary. One day an aging poet, Chris Flanders, arrives on the island and is attacked by Mrs. Goforth's dwarf bodyguard and his pack of vicious dogs. Although Mrs. Goforth's friend, an epicene bachelor known as the Witch of Capri, tells her that Chris has been called the "Angel of Death" because of his frequent association with dying wealthy women, she tolerates the intruder and permits him to remain in one of the guest houses adjacent to her lavish villa. Alternately repelled and attracted by the poet, Mrs. Goforth begins to rely more and more on his presence as her health gradually wanes. Ultimately forced to accept the inevitable, she invites Chris into her bedroom and collapses. As he sits by her side and prepares her for death, Chris slowly removes her fortune in jewels. After she has died, he wanders out onto the terrace, pours himself a large snifter of brandy, drops a huge diamond into it, and lets the glass fall to the sea below.
Director
Joseph Losey
Cast
Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Burton
Noël Coward
Joanna Shimkus
Michael Dunn
Romolo Valli
Fernando Piazza
Veronica Wells
Claudie Ettori
Howard Taylor
Gens Block
Franco Pesce
Sergio Carozzi
Giovanni Paganelli
Crew
Alexandre Of Paris
John Barry
Reginald Beck
Alan Bell
Ron Berkeley
Don Black
John Dankworth
Valerio De Paolis
Leslie Hammond
Douglas Hayward
John Heyman
John Heyman
Gerry Humphreys
Nazirali Jairazbhoy
Viram Jasani
Frank La Rue
Carlo Lastricati
Richard Macdonald
Richard Macdonald
Annalisa Nasalli-rocca
Ottavio Oppo
Lester Persky
Norman Priggen
Douglas Slocombe
Tiziani Of Rome
Chic Waterson
Helen Whitson
Tennessee Williams
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Hot sun, cool breeze, white horse on the sea, and a big shot of vitamin B in me!- Flora 'Sissy' Goforth
Shit on your mother!- Flora 'Sissy' Goforth
What's human or inhuman is not for human decision.- Flora 'Sissy' Goforth
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, a stately pleasure-dome decree. Where Alph, the sacred river, ran through caverns measureless to man down to a sunless sea.- Chris Flanders
WhaaAAAT??- Flora 'Sissy' Goforth
Trivia
Notes
Location scenes filmed in Sardinia. Opened in London in December 1968; running time: 113 min. Working titles: Sunburst and Goforth.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Spring May 1968
Released in United States August 1997
Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (50 Years of American Film) August 6-16, 1997.
Released in United States Spring May 1968
Released in United States August 1997 (Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (50 Years of American Film) August 6-16, 1997.)
