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Boom!

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Boom!
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NR,1hr 52min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1968
Director:
Joseph Losey
Starring:
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noël Coward  ...more
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 ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
Boom! is a ridiculous exercise in excess, the kind of misfire that destroyed the careers of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton . Taken from a Tennessee Williams play this is definitely one of the playwright's lesser efforts, Boom! is an overblown wallow from start to finish. Mind you, there's definitely some entertainment value in it; if nothing else, the bizarre spikey headpiece that adorns Taylor's ... Full Review
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Elizabeth Taylor
Flora Goforth
Richard Burton
Chris Flanders
Noël Coward
Witch Of Capri
Joanna Shimkus
Blackie Black
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