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Boom! Overview:

Boom! (1968) was a Drama - Thriller/Suspense Film directed by Joseph Losey and produced by John Heyman, Norman Priggen and Lester Persky.

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Boom! Quotes:

Flora 'Sissy' Goforth: Hot sun, cool breeze, white horse on the sea, and a big shot of vitamin B in me!
Flora 'Sissy' Goforth: Ah, the insincere sympathy of the faraway stars.
Flora 'Sissy' Goforth: Shit on your mother!
Flora 'Sissy' Goforth: Life is all memory.
Chris Flanders: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, a stately pleasure-dome decree. Where Alph, the sacred river, ran through caverns measureless to man down to a sunless sea.
Flora 'Sissy' Goforth: WhaaAAAT?
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Boom! Facts
The first mainstream British film to include the expletive "shit" in its dialog (see Quotes section).
Chris as envisioned was a young poet, and Richard Burton was considered by most to be terribly miscast as well as too old for the part. The bust of "Boom!" seriously damaged Elizabeth Taylor's standing at the box office, though Burton had another major hit with Where Eagles Dare after the fiasco of its drubbing by both the critics and movie audiences.
Despite the twin Broadway failures of the play "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore," it was thought that Elizabeth Taylor and Tennessee Williams were an irresistible combination, after the sucess of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Suddenly, Last Summer, both of which won Taylor Oscar nominations as Best Actress. It was a fatal miscalculation on the part of the producer.
According to Lord Melvyn Bragg in his biography Richard Burton: A Life" (1988), director Joseph Losey was drinking heavily during the shooting of "Boom!" due to personal problems. Bragg attributes some of the responsibility for the failure of the film to this.
According to the book, "Infinite Variety" by Scot D. Ryersson and Michael Orlando Yaccarino, the characters of Flora Goforth and the Witch of Capri were both partly inspired by the infamous Italian eccentric and patron of the arts, the Marchesa Luisa Casati (1881-1957).
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