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Date: 1968 (Copyright)

Countries: United Kingdom, USA

Directed by: Joseph Losey

Synopsis: Wandering 'poet' takes up with jaded widow of six wealthy husbands.

Genres:
Drama, Melodrama
Releases
Date: 26 May 1968Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 113 mins Length: 10126 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 01 October 1968Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 113 mins Length: 10126 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Rank Film Distributors

Credits (47)
©: Universal Pictures Limited, Production Company: World Film Services Ltd., Production Company: Moonlake Productions, Production Company: Universal Pictures Limited, Presents: Universal, Produced by: John Heyman, Norman Priggen, Associate Producer: Lester Persky, Unit Manager: Valerio de Paolis, Production Supervisor: Ottavio Oppo, Assistant Director: Carlo Lastricati, Continuity: Helen Whitson, Screenplay by: Tennessee Williams, From the play 'The Milk Train...' by: Tennessee Williams, Lighting Cameraman: Douglas Slocombe, Camera Operator: Chic Waterson, Editor: Reginald Beck, [1st Assistant Editor]: Roger Wilson, [2nd Assistant Editor]: David Hitchcock, Production Designed by: Richard Macdonald, [Art Director]: John Clark, [Assistant to the Production Designer]: Jorie Pepper, [Set Dresser]: Jill Oxley, [Construction Manager]: Ron Grundy, Miss [Elizabeth] Taylor's Clothes: Tiziani of Rome, Wardrobe Supervisor: Annalisa Nasalli Rocco, Jewellery: Bulgari (Rome), Noël Coward's Suit: Douglas Hayward, Elizabeth] Taylor's Make-up: Frank La Rue, Richard Burton's Make-up: Ron Berkeley, [Make-up]: George Claff, Miss Taylor's Hairstyles Desn/Created by: Alexandre de Paris, Miss Taylor's Hairstyles Executed by: Claudie Ettori, [Hair]: Bill Griffiths, Filmed in: Panavision, Processed by: Humphries Film Laboratories, Music Composed and Conducted by: John Barry, Indian Sitar Music by: Nazirali Jairazbnoy, Viram Jasani, Sound Recordist: Leslie Hammond, Gerry Humphreys, [Boom Operator]: Fred Tomlin, Sound System: RCA, Dubbing Editor: Alan Bell, [Play] Produced on the Broadway Stage by: Roger L. Stevens, Made at the: De Laurentiis Studios (Rome)
Cast (16)
Elizabeth Taylor (Flora 'Sissy' Goforth), Richard Burton (Christopher 'Chris' Flanders), Noël Coward (Bill Ridgeway, The Witch of Capri), Joanna Shimkus (Miss Black, 'Blackie', Goforth's secreta), Michael Dunn (Rudi, Goforth's watchman), Romolo Valli (Doctor Lullo, Goforth's doctor), Howard Taylor (journalist), Fernando Piazza (Etti, Goforth's butler), Veronica Wells (Simonetta, Goforth's maid), Gens Bloch ([photographer on boat]), Franco Pesce ([villager]), Claudie Ettori ([manicurist]), Nazirali Jairazbnoy, Viram Jasani ([sitar player]), Sergio Carozzi, Giovanni Paganelli (.)