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The biggest misuse of film in recent history
Strikingly and incredibly the dumbest movie i have seen in...well ever. I am a fan of the genre of movies that depict the evils of drug use in bizarre and unintentionally humorous, but usually untrue ways. Can anyone forget "Reefer Madnes" (1932) or "Cocaine Fiends" (1936) or "The Trip?" (1967) They are made, I'm sure, with the intention of giving somewhat of a warning message intended for the general publics safety, but can be misleading and sometimes grossly overzealous in their efforts. And now they are just fun. I first read about this movie a few years ago and was eager to add it to my movie collection. Thank goodness for Amazon because it has been hard to find. The cast/crew alone is intriguing enough in light of the subject matter for any movie buff. Rita Hayworth, Yul Brenner, Marcello Mastroiani, Eli Wallach, E.G. Marshall, Angie Dickinson, Omar Shariff all appear and it was directed by Terence Young who made the fantastic "Wait Until Dark" (1967) and some notable James Bond movies. Well, I know now why it has been so hard to find. It is an embarrasment to film. I don't know what everyone was thinking when they collaborated on this venture. Rita Hayworth's alzheimers was obviously already setting in for her to have even CONSIDERED this role, let alone taking it. Just a year before Omar Shariff appeared in "Doctor Zhivago," one of the best movies of that decade and I don't even know what to say about Yul Brenner. Just because someone earns an Oscar doesn't mean they should stop trying. Which ever studio head OK'd production for this flick MUST have lost his job and it is no wonder American International Pictures went bankrupt less than ten years later. And to boot it was produced for the United Nations as a television project! The editing is choppy, direction only approaching mediocre at best, and the dialogue and acting at times is just downright bad. Any of the actors who participated in this movie that are still living must cringe at the mere sight of a poppy now. And with good reason. In a masochistic way I had to watch it through to the end just to see how bad it would really get. I wasn't disappointed. It was. Bad. Terribly bad. It is a keeper for movie buffs only for the cast and to make you wonder what the ____ some of the best and well-known actors of the day were thinking. If you like this genre of film, stick with the better ones mentioned above or any of the others made throughout the decades.