Candy (1968 film)

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, Maril Tolo, Nicoletta Machiavelli and Umberto Orsini also appear in cameo roles.

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 Emmanuels 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 sexstarved 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 braindamaged father in disguise, revisits some of the characters she met in the film, then wanders off into the desert before returning to outer space.This was the solo film acting debut of then Beatle Ringo Starr Starr had previously appeared alongside his bandmates John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison in A Hard Days Night 1964, Help 1965 and Magical Mystery Tour 1967. Starr continued appearing in movie roles through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s including another film based on a Southern novel, The Magic Christian while he continued his music career. ........

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