Designing the Movies: Boom!

“It's the other side of camp. It's beautiful, atrocious and it's perfect.” -John Waters.

Screened with an introduction and notes on camp by series host Nathalie Atkinson, 1968 cult classic BOOM! is based on the Tennessee Williams play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. It's about wealthy hypochondriac Sissy Goforth (Elizabeth Taylor), who lives on a secluded island with her servants and nurses; into her life comes a mysterious man (Richard Burton) who may or may not be the 'Angel of Death.' At one point, Noël Coward comes over for dinner. See the Taylor-Burton vehicle so wonderfully terrible and trashy that even Waters bows down to it.



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Designing the Movies: Boom!

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