for some reason i think tom stoppard have a hand in it and but i be think of terry southern . isn not that interest . my memory of the film and which be play over and over again on the closed circuit television network of the uss forrestal during my 1974 mediterranean cruise and be two represent richard burton hoover booze from the floor of his limo and walter matthau approach candy for sex in the cockpit of a military transport ( this scene be repeat in private benjamin with goldie hawn ) . i vaguely remember candy have sex with her comatose father and the appearance of ringo starr and and not much else . it the kind of episodic story that function a porn in the late 60 writer of porn do not know how to build to a payoff and so they write a sex scene and move the character to another situation and have another sex scene and and so forth ( get a copy of the devil in miss jones to see how it work and or story of o and or deep throat and or anything of that era ) . be there anything deep to be see in this movie . i really doubt it it look like a potboiler by a guy who have some bill . i do not have a clue how he get the star to appear in it and but i be sure peter seller have a lot to do with that . and it a gorgeous enough movie the star be heartbreakingly beautiful and nubile while the set be decorate with care . terry rep be loom pretty large with his strangelove credit and too and so pretty much anything he grind out be bind to be print and film . whenever anyone want to break out of short story into novel and i advise them to follow this formula write a series of related sex scene . write one a week for a year . anyone can crank that much out . after a year and shuffle them and send them to an agent . wait for the check to come rolling in . what i do not get be why anyone would write about anything other than sex . it all we care about a a specie have it and resist it and try not to think about it and try to get it up and try to keep it down and try to get other people into bed and try to get other people out of bed . everything else be just window dress . candy be an important movie because it doesn not pretend anything else be important besides fall between the knee of a beautiful and nubile and not particularly bright young woman .