Candy (1968)
One of the most underrated films of the 1960's, Candy uses the
lascivious adventures of your average, innocent, teenage,
Scandinavian sexpot (played by doe-eyed Swedish blonde Ewa Aulin)
as an opportunity to satirise the American military, 60's hippie
idealism, middle-class morality and more.
Based on writer Terry (Dr Strangelove) Southern's
notoriously ribald novel adapted by The Graduate
screenwriter Buck Henry - Candy features a jaw dropping
gallery of players, including Marlon Brando as a horny
Maharishi-style guru whose temple is in the back of an 18 wheeler,
Richard Burton as a groupie-swamped Zen-poet, James Coburn as a
hilariously homicidal doctor, Ringo Starr as a confused gardener,
John Huston, Walter Matthau, John Astin and more!
The movie also has a revved-up soundtrack by The Byrds and
Steppenwolf.
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