The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966) on Netflix
A United Nations narcotics team injects a radioactive marker into a seized opium shipment near the Afghanistan-Iran border, aiming to trace a heroin network's European distributor.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)
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- The anti-drug film was funded in part by a grant from Xerox and produced by the United Nations, and its stars received a salary of only $1.
- One of the props from Thunderball, the underwater watch with a built-in Geiger counter that Q gives James Bond, appears at the beginning of the film, repurposed to track drug shipments containing a radioactive marker.
- Director Terence Young left the direction of Thunderball in order to make The Poppy Is Also a Flower.
- The Poppy Is Also a Flower was the last of four television movies commissioned by the United Nations to publicize its missions and roles in world peace and diplomacy.
