wow . pretty terrible stuff . the richard burton or elizabeth taylor roadshow land in sardinia and hook up with arty director joseph losey for this remarkably ill conceive tennessee williams fiasco . taylor play a rich and die widow hold fort over her minion on an island where she dictate and very loudly and her memoir to an incredibly patient secretary . when scoundrel burton show up claim to be a poet and old friend and taylor realize her time be up . ludicrious in the extreme it difficult to determine if taylor and burton be act badly or if it be williams intention to make their character so unappealing . if that the case and then the acting be brilliant . burton mumble his line and include the word boom several time and while taylor screech her . she really awful . so be noel coward a taylor catty confidante and the witch of capri . presumably boom be about how fleeting time be and how fast life move along two standard williams theme and but it so misdirect by losey and that have taylor and burton not spell it out for the audience during their mostly inane monologue and any substance the film have would have be completely dilute . boom do have stun photography the camera would have to have be out of focus to screw up the beauty of sardinia . the support cast feature joanna shimkus and the great romolo valli a taylor resourceful doctor and michael dunn a her nasty dwarf security guard . both he and his dog do a number on burton .