Candy (1968 film)
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| Directed by | Christian Marquand |
| Produced by |
Robert Haggiag Selig J. Seligman Peter Zoref |
| Screenplay by | Buck Henry |
| Based on |
Candy by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg |
| Starring |
Marlon Brando Ewa Aulin John Astin Charles Aznavour Richard Burton James Coburn John Huston Ringo Starr Elsa Martinelli Enrico Maria Salerno |
| Music by | Dave Grusin |
| Cinematography | Giuseppe Rotunno |
| Edited by | Giancarlo Cappelli Frank Santillo |
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| Distributed by | Cinerama Releasing (1968, original) Starz/Anchor Bay (under license from MGM) (2001, DVD) Kino Lorber (2016, Blu-Ray) |
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124 minutes |
| Country | France Italy United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2.72 million |
| Box office | $16,408,286 |
Candy is a 1968 sex farce film directed by Christian Marquand based on the 1958 novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, from a screenplay by Buck Henry. The film satirizes pornographic stories through the adventures of its naive heroine, Candy, played by Ewa Aulin. It stars Marlon Brando, Ewa Aulin, Richard Burton, James Coburn, Walter Matthau, Ringo Starr, John Huston, John Astin, Charles Aznavour, Elsa Martinelli and Enrico Maria Salerno. Popular figures such as Sugar Ray Robinson, Anita Pallenberg, Florinda Bolkan, Marilù Tolo, Nicoletta Machiavelli and Umberto Orsini also appear in cameo roles.
High school student Candy (former Miss Teen Sweden Ewa Aulin) seemingly descends to Earth from space. In the relatively simple plot, she naively endures an escalating series of situations in which her oblivious beauty and allure triggers satirical porn-film-like encounters. Roger Ebert wrote, "Candy caroms from one man to another like a nympho in a pinball machine, and the characters she encounters are improbable enough to establish Terry Southern's boredom with the conventions of pornography."
In school, her father (John Astin) is also her teacher. At a poetry recital, eccentric poet McPhisto (Richard Burton) offers Candy a ride home in his limousine. At her home, McPhisto drunkenly waxes boisterously poetic, arousing Candy and her gardener Emmanuel (Ringo Starr) into sex. Scandalized, she and her family escape from Emmanuel's three vengeful sisters and head for New York, where she embarks on a psychedelic journey during which she meets a number of strange people, including a sex-starved military general (Walter Matthau), a doctor who performs public operations (James Coburn), a hunchback (Charles Aznavour), an obsessed underground filmmaker (Enrico Maria Salerno) and a fake Indian guru (Marlon Brando). As the film ends, she meets a wise guru in an Indian temple (who turns out to be her brain-damaged father in disguise), revisits some of the characters she met in the film, then wanders off into the desert before returning to outer space.
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