Boom!
Boom! is a 1968 British drama film directed by Joseph Losey and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Noël Coward. It was adapted by Tennessee Williams from his own play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore.
Plot
Flora 'Sissy' Goforth is a terminally-ill woman living with a coterie of servants, whom she verbally abuses, in a large mansion on a secluded Italian island. Into her life comes a mysterious man, Christopher Flanders, nicknamed "L'Angelo della morte" "The Angel of Death". Christopher claims to have met her previously, while Flora, for her part, affects not to remember having met him before. Flora is said to suffer from neuritis and several other kinds of "-itis."
More details
| author | Tennessee Williams |
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| contentLocation | Italy |
| director | Joseph Losey |
| editor | Reginald Beck |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | allegorical allegory angel of death destroying angel dog attack emotional vulnerability fade guard dog human being mysterious man old man seclude speak suffer symbolism symbolist the angel of death to remember |
| musicBy | John Barry |
| producer | John Heyman |
| productionCompany | John Heyman Productions Moon Lake World Film Services |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |