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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: What's human or inhuman is not for human decision.
Flora 'Sissy' Goforth: Hot sun, cool breeze, white horse on the sea, and a big shot of vitamin B in me!
Flora 'Sissy' Goforth: Did somebody tell you I was dying this summer? Did somebody tip you off that Sissy Goforth was about to go forth this summer?
Chris Flanders: Yes. That's why I came.
Flora 'Sissy' Goforth: Well, well. I've escorted six husbands to the eternal threshold and come back alone without them. Now it's my turn. I've no choice but to do it, but I want to do it alone. I don't want to be escorted. I want to go forth alone. And you... you counted on touching my heart because you knew I was dying. Well, you miscalculated with this one. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore.
Flora 'Sissy' Goforth: Ah, the insincere sympathy of the faraway stars.
Flora 'Sissy' Goforth: Shit on your mother!
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Boom! Facts
Tennesse Williams lobbied Sean Connery to play Chris, but he declined.
Topol passed on this project
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.
Tennessee Williams stated that it was the best film version of any of his plays that was ever produced. The rest of the world seemed not to agree, for the monumentally expensive production bombed at the box office.
The play "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore", and thus this movie, are based on Tennessee Williams' short story "Man Bring This Up Road".
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