Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Fantasy
Release Year: 1968
Country: USA, France, Italy
Runtime: 124
Rating: 4.3 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Christian Marquand
Sound: Mono
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Writing by: Buck Henry – screenplay
Mason Hoffenberg – novel
Terry Southern – novel

Produced by: Robert Haggiag – producer
Selig J. Seligman – executive producer
Peter Zoref – executive producer

Cast: Charles Aznavour – Hunchback juggler
Marlon Brando – Grindl
Richard Burton – MacPhisto
James Coburn – Dr. A.B. Krankheit
John Huston – Dr. Arnold Dunlap
Walter Matthau – Gen. R.A. Smight
Ringo Starr – Emmanuel
Ewa Aulin – Candy Christian
John Astin – T.M. Christian / Jack Christian
Elsa Martinelli – Livia
Sugar Ray Robinson – Zero

Music: Dave Grusin
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Plot Outline: Based on Terry Southerns satirical novel, a sendup of Voltaires -Candide-. Young Candy is a high school girl who seeks truth and meaning in life, encountering a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations in the process.
Plot: Candy Christian is an innocent young girl when she first hears NcPhito, an alcoholic Welsh poet, talk of love and self-sacrifice. Candy narrowly escapes McPhistos attempt to rape her, only to succumb to her fathers Mexican gardener, Emmanuel. When her father catches her with the gardener, he banishes her to a trip with his twin brother, Uncle Jack, and Jacks wife Aunt Livia, who are headed for New York City. As Candy makes her way to the airport, Emmanuels three sisters attack her because she has corrupted their brother. Because of Candy, Emmanuel has now forsaken the priesthood. During the scuffle, Candys father takes a blow to the head, resulting in a serious head injury. Candy nearly gives in to a General Smight on the plane in exchange for a blood transfusion for her father. In New York, an ego-maniacal brain surgeon Dr. Krankeit operates on her father, while Uncle Jack pursues his own operation on Candy. When Candy bashes him with a bedpan, Uncle Jack is put in her fathers hospital bed, while her father wanders away without notice. Candy is now free to visit Greenwich Village where she takes part in a film by an underground movie director Jonathan J. John. Its a pornographic film, shot in a public restroom. Next, Candy becomes the pet of a benevolent hunchback in Central Park, but she escapes from his arch criminal into the truck trailer of Guru Grindl. During the drive to California, Grindl initiates her into the mysteries of the Seventh Stage and other secrets of life. In California, Candy seeks the Great Buddah, who will reveal to her the ultimate stage. In her search, she encounter a filthy hermit who leads her to a temple. There Candy and the hermit have sex. When a deluge destroys the temple and washes the hermit clean. Candy recognizes that the hermit is really her wandering father. Again Candy runs away to more trouble. The final time, however, she finds herself in a hippie orgy, reunited with her past sexual partners.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Credits scroll backwards.

Goofs: We know about 3 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When J is talking to Randy from her car after first meeting him, the door is open from his point of view but closed from hers.

Trivia: There are 7 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• Cameo: [Buck Henry] Films writer is the strait-jacketed man in the elevator who becomes agitated at mention of Dr. Krankheit.
• The sequence of the nurse assisting Dr. Krankheit put on his latex operating gloves is a clever reverse film of pulling the gloves off.
• In one sequence, Charles Aznavour (as the hunchback) escapes the police by crawling on the mansion ceiling and jumping down through a window made of water. This is a visual reference to surrealist Jean Cocteaus Sang dun poète, Le (1930) where the character jumps into a mirror made of water after crawling over a hallway of doors. (The effect was achieved by constructing the “wall” and “ceiling” on the studio floor and shooting the scene from above.) Even the sound effect at that moment, a shouted “No!”, is in both films.