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Alec B A near total disaster made by very talented artists. One can laugh at its excesses and its bizzare attempts at serious observations about death but I honestly don't understand why people hate something so strange and almost compulsively watchable (you can't take your eyes off of it). It's a true camp classic. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/07/24 Full Review David F I found this almost unwatchable. I love almost everyone involved: Tennessee Williams, Noel Coward, Elizabeth Taylor, and Richard Burton, plus it's got a great setting in a remote island villa. It was just too outré I guess. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/23/23 Full Review Red T 0 out of 5. One of the most boring, incoherent, bizarre things I've ever seen. What a waste of a beautiful location. Nothing ever happens except Taylor's ego which is having a field day being over the top dramatic for no reason in every single scene. Burton doesn't even interact with her for half the runtime. I don't really know anything about their characters after watching this because the story is so nonsensical. Is he a poet, senator, Samurai? I checked out of this about 55% of the way through because it was soooo boring. Literally NOTHING happens. It just scenes of them doing stuff that makes no sense and contributes nothing to a coherent story. The music is the one slight highlight. It's not that good but its something. It's still boring and barely used but it's still alright sometimes. Everything else in this is fundamentally broken. Die before watching this. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Yes, it's bad. The great Joseph Losey has helmed a big beautiful turkey and stuffed it with Burton, Taylor and Coward. Tennessee Williams rescued this from some bottom bottom drawer. The one good element is Douglas Slocombe's crystalline cinematography of the beautiful Italian island where it's set. Did nobody think to question this lumpen dodo before the cameras turned? Or even during? Or was everyone besotted with the location and the cast? Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Directed by Joseph Losey (The Boy with Green Hair (1948), The Servant (1963) and The Go-Between (1971), and adapted by Tennessee Williams from William's own 1962 play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. The play was a massive flop, but that didn't stop it from being adapted as a film, starring the most bankable acting couple working at the time, it should have been a success, but that didn't happen. Set on a remote island somewhere in the Mediterranean, it has aging millionaire Flora 'Sissy' Goforth (Elizabeth Taylor) slowly dying from a terminal illness, but she lives a life of luxury in her cliff side mansion, which is ran by her eccentric band of servants. She lives a quiet life until one day, English poet Christopher Flanders (Richard Burton) seemingly arrives by scaling the cliff and walking into the grounds of her mansion. Goforth and Flanders fire off one another, with Goforth believing he's The Angel of Death, and that he's come to take her away, something Flanders denies but Goforth feels death come nearer, especially with The Witch of Capri (Noël Coward) arrives. It's a camp film, and it's near impossible to take seriously, and despite some nice touches, score by John Barry and cinematography by Douglas Slocombe, the film is just an excuse for Burton and Taylor to shout at each other, the film took away their commercial tag for good. You can see why John Waters loves it. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member How did this film only get 8% in positive ratings? Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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