Candy (1968)

The chance to see a lot of celebrities in this film is reason enough to see this terrible film. I think a lot of these people signed for this film is a chance to really cut loose with some overacting and see who could ham it up the most.In this fantasy tale Ewa Aulin who never made it out of Swedish cinema to the international scene plays the title role. She plays teenage temptress who gets a whole lot of men into overdrive with their hormones. She's lovely to look at, but didn't make it in the talent department. A new Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman she was not about to become.No reason to outline a plot. Along the way Candy meets such folks as Richard Burton, Marlon Brando, and Walter Matthau who just let it all hang out doing their various shticks.Marlon Brando said this was the worst film he was ever in. I wouldn't argue with him.

A film version of the notorious novel by Terry Southern & Mason Hoffenberg. Ewa Aulin plays the title role, a not-so-bright sexpot who happens to continually be in the wrong place at the wrong time, encountering one sex fiend after another, from Mexican gardener Ringo Starr(!) to military man Walter Matthau to creepy poet Richard Burton. It's not particularly funny but it is highly entertaining with an occasional glimpse of real wit provided by screenwriter Buck Henry. It's a rambling film and the cameos come fast and furious...Marlon Brando, John Astin (in 2 roles!), John Huston, Anita Pallenberg, Florinda Bolkan and Charles Aznavour. Directed (using that term very loosely) by actor Christian Marquand. It's photographed very lushly by Giuseppe Rotunno. It's low-rent LOLITA but still worth seeing.

Quite a few changes have been made in the movie version of the novel. Entirely new characters have been added (General Smight, Zero, Lolita, Conchita, Marquita), and others have been considerably metamorphosed (e.g. Doctor Howard Johns into an underground movie director and the sham philosopher into a genuine mystic), while others have been eliminated altogether (e.g. Tab Hutchins, who figures in Mephesto's amusing non-sequitur about war not accomplishing anything, and of course the Kingsleys who are the catalysts for Livia's account of a projected TV program – easily the most hilarious episode in the book – plus Peter Uspy of the Cracker Foundation, Jack Catt and Tom Smart). The plot of the movie, whilst it more or less follows the broad outlines of the book, has not only been considerably altered in details, but some of the best scenes are missing.

Anybody who can actually sit through this piece of trash and write a positive review with a straight face needs to have his or her head examined. I have never, ever seen a worse movie in my entire life, and I have seen many bad films. This film should never have been made, and the only reason anybody should sit through it is to see which "name" actor humiliates himself the most.That award has to go to Richard Burton, who absolutely hit rock-bottom in this film. His performance is totally embarrassing. After watching him trying to get it on with a mannequin, I thought to myself, "He must have loved Elizabeth Taylor so much to have allowed himself to be humiliated like that." This was around the time he bought the famous 69-carat Taylor-Burton diamond for his wife, and he needed the money.The music is terrible, the acting is terrible, there is no plot, and overall it is a tasteless mess.