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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΄
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Joseph Losey

Joseph Walton Losey (1909–1984) was an American director, whose exile from Hollywood led him to become one of the most incisive voices of European arthouse cinema. Blacklisted during the McCarthy era, he relocated to Europe, where he displayed a profound talent for illuminating class, desire, power, and alienation. Losey’s most celebrated works include The Servant (1963), Accident (1967), and The Go-Between (1971), the last of which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. His film, Accident, took home the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival in 1967. In 1977, Mr. Klein earned him both the César Award for Best Film and Best Director. His style was based on a handful of dialogues, scenes full of psychological symbolism and cinematography that focused on the weight of social spaces – rooms, gardens, suburban mansions – as his characters grappled with undisclosed desires and betrayals. His collaboration with playwright Harold Pinter is legendary, producing some of the most haunting and sophisticated cinema of the 1960s and 1970s.

Filmography

1948 The Boy with Green Hair
1951 The Prowler
1957 Time Without Pity
1963 The Servant
1967 Accident
1971 The Go-Between
1975 Galileo
1976 Mr. Klein
1979 Don Giovanni
1982 The Trout
1985 Steaming