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Boom! is a British film of genre Drama directed by Joseph Losey released in USA on 26 may 1968 with Elizabeth Taylor
Boom! (1968)
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Add to a movie listBoom! is a 1968 British drama film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Noël Coward, directed by Joseph Losey, and adapted from the play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore by Tennessee Williams.
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Flora 'Sissy' Goforth (Taylor, in a part written for an older woman) is a terminally ill woman living with a coterie of servants in a large mansion on a secluded island. Into her life comes a mysterious man, Christopher Flanders, nicknamed "Angelo Del Morte" (played by then-husband Burton, in a part intended for a very young man). The mysterious man may or may not be "The Angel of Death".Actors
Elizabeth Taylor
(Flora 'Sissy' Goforth)
Richard Burton
(Chris Flanders)
Joanna Shimkus
(Miss Black)
Noël Coward
(The Witch of Capri)
Michael Dunn
(Rudi)
Romolo Valli
(Doctor Luilo)
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