Boom!
Boom! (película de 1968)
1968 · United States, United Kingdom · 139 min
- Director
- Joseph Losey
- Screenplay
- Tennessee Williams
- Music
- John Barry
- Cinematography
- Douglas Slocombe
- Editing
- Reginald Beck
- Production company
- Universal Pictures
What the critics say
20 % Rotten Tomatoes positive reviewsCast
What it is about
On a secluded Mediterranean island, Flora 'Sissy' Goforth, a wealthy woman with a terminal illness, lives surrounded by servants whom she treats harshly. Her seclusion is disrupted by the arrival of Christopher Flanders, a mysterious man nicknamed the Angel of Death. As Flora dictates her memoirs about her many marriages and her one great love, a poet who has since died, she feels both attraction and fear toward the newcomer.
How it was made
Boom! adapts Tennessee Williams's play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, which Williams himself adapted for the screen. Losey took on the project as Elizabeth Taylor sought to revive a fading career, and Universal already held the rights to the play. Filming took place in Sardinia, where a mansion was built especially for the story on the cliffs. Production was delayed when Taylor fell ill with bronchitis, and the title changed several times before settling. John Barry composed the score and Douglas Slocombe shot the film.
Reception and legacy
Critics mostly rejected it, and it holds a low rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It also failed at the box office. Over time it has built a camp reputation and a cult following, and filmmaker John Waters championed it, screening it at the first Maryland Film Festival in 1999. Some critics, such as Andrew Sarris, praised its visual style, while others questioned the casting of the leads.
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Trailer
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Trivia
A mansion built to order
Flora's mansion was built specifically for the film on cliffs off the coast of Sardinia, a small island setting that became part of the production's identity.
Statues on the cliffs
Replicas of six Easter Island moai heads stand along the bluffs, possibly representing the six husbands Flora outlived.
More films by Joseph Losey
The Go-Between
The Servant
Monsieur Klein
The Assassination of Trotsky
Accident
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