there have never be nor will there ever again be a film quite like candy . this vulgar and scattershot and psychedelic sex satire be an utter failure and but boy what a fascinating failure . it offer the chance to see a roster of talented star work on such obfuscate material that their only get out clause be to overact to epidemic level . it also offer a chance to experience the sexual permissiveness and hallucinatory extravagance of 1960s society and in a film make just a the cinema be break away from the production code into a new and exciting era of relaxed censorship and franker morality . the film have no plot to speak of and but be more a series of highly exaggerated vignette . naive high school beauty candy christian ( ewa aulin ) begin her odyssey of sexual misadventure at a poetry seminar give by the revile but popular poet mcphisto ( richard burton ) . upon take the drunken poet back to her house to dry his trouser soak with booze the family mexican gardener emmanuel ( ringo starr ) mistakenly believe that candy be come on to him and so he make love to her on a pool table in the basement . candy father ( john astin ) walk in on them and be so distraught that he arrange for his daughter to take a break in new york with her uncle ( astin again ) . candy end up on an air force jet where she be once again seduced and this time by a mad air force officer ( walter matthau ) while late she be take advantage of by a brilliant surgeon ( james coburn ) who perform a dangerous operation on her injured father . during a post operation party and candy father wanders off and the girl attempt to find him on the street of new york . here she get into yet more sexual situation and first be rap by a weird hunchback thief ( charles aznavour ) and later rather indecently frisk by a horny cop ( joey forman ) . candy finally seek refuge in the back of a truck and but it turn out to be the travelling home of sex addict guru grindl ( marlon brando ) . and and yes and you have guess it and he too take advantage of the over sexed yet ever innocent girl . it be hard to be sure if there be any point to all this and though the lack of a meaningful narrative suggests that the film be try to convey some kind of subtextual meaning . perhaps the film be attempt to say that men be devious and connive creature who will try every dirty trick in the book to get into the pant of an attractive young girl . or maybe it be say that pretty young blonde who wear impossibly short skirt be capable of drive men of every age and occupation to experience their deep desire . the original book be apparently a satire on pornographic clichés ( i haven not read it and but i have read about it ) and but the film seem to be more concerned with titillation than out and out porn . of the actor involve and burton register best a the self indulgent poet . matthau be quite funny too a the absurd air force officer . the big waste be coburn and brando and the latter give perhaps his lazy ever performance a the sex guru ( though you can understand his agree to be in this . a salary of $ 50 and 000 to rip off aulin clothes and romp around with her seem a pretty fair incentive . ) candy be a total mess of a movie and but you should still watch it if only to say you have have the dubious pleasure of experience it unique brand of vulgarity and chaos and extravagance .