Boom! (1968) on Netflix
PG19681h 53mDramaHorrorThriller
Wealthy and dying, Flora 'Sissy' Goforth dictates her memoirs at her island mansion. A poet, Christopher Flanders, climbs the cliff and her guard dogs attack him. He says they have met before.
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Plot summary
Flora 'Sissy' Goforth is terminally ill and lives in seclusion on an Italian island with servants she verbally abuses. Her villas are wired for sound so she can resume dictating her memoirs at any moment; these cover her marriages and her only love, a now-dead poet. When Christopher Flanders climbs the cliff to her estate, her guard dogs attack him, and she has her secretary Miss Black lodge him in a villa to recover and gives him a samurai warrior's robe and sword to wear in place of the clothes the dogs shredded. Over dinner on her terrace, The Witch of Capri tells her his nickname, L'Angelo della morte, and that he has visited the dying shortly before their deaths. He says they have met before; she says she does not remember him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Boom! (1968)
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- A trailer used as Elizabeth Taylor's dressing room broke loose from its moorings seconds after she stepped out of it and plunged 150 feet over an embankment into the sea.
- During filming, Elizabeth Taylor's pet monkey stole a $1,600 jewel case and then went missing for a year.
- Though a critical and financial failure, Boom! gained a camp reputation and a cult following; filmmaker John Waters admires it and picked it to present at the first Maryland Film Festival in 1999.
- The mansion of Mrs. Flora Goforth was built for the film high on the limestone cliffs of Isola de Presa off Sardinia, and along the bluffs stand six replicas of Easter Island moai heads, perhaps the spirits of the six husbands she outlived.
- Elizabeth Taylor received a $60,000 brooch from producer John Heyman, and the jeweller Bulgari loaned $2 million worth of jewels for the film.
