Boom!

A tone-deaf version of Tennessee Williams’ stage play The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, that grew to become a camp icon despite its box-office slump. Elizabeth Taylor plays a six-times divorced millionairess, who spends her summer holidays on a Mediterranean island dictating her memoirs. Richard Burton portrays a poet, dubbed the “Angel of Death” because of his habit to hone in on rich dying widows and reap financial boons. A film that transcends all labels and classifications, achieving immortality.

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Direction: Joseph Losey

Script: Tennessee Williams, based on The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore

Cinematography: Douglas Slocombe

Editing: Reginald Beck

Sound: Les Hammond, Gerry Humphreys

Music: John Barry

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noël Coward

Producers: John Heyman, Norman Priggen

Format: BluRay

Color: Color

Production Country: UK

Production Year: 1968

Duration: 113΄

Contact: Park Circus Ltd, info@parkcircus.com

Joseph Losey

Joseph Losey worked as a theater critic, a stage director, a radio producer and a director of commercials for the Rockefeller Foundation, before making his move to the cinema industry. As a result of his refusal to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951, Losey was “blacklisted” and was forced to leave the USA and move to England. Throughout his career, the quintessential Losey “hero” remained unaltered: a desperate man, fully aware of the fact that he is orchestrating his own downfall, who remains unable to put a halt to his doom.