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The incredibly rich writer Sissy Goforth lives alone with her servants and nurses on the top of a Mediterranean island, on which she makes her own rules. Her days consist of dictating her autobiography and begging for injections. Here comes Chris Flanders, a.k.a. the angel of death - he has the weird habit of paying visit to unfortunate ladies shortly before their death. Sissy dresses him like a Japanese warrior, and he contemplates in that outfit the waves breaking against the rocks below. The witch of Capri - a neighbour - is invited to share their dinner, a larger than life - and still moving - monster of the sea.
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Flora Goforth, a millionairess widowed six times, retires each summer to her private island in the Mediterranean. This summer, however, she learns that she is going to die and begins to dictate her memoirs to Blackie, her abused secretary. One day an aging poet, Chris Flanders, arrives on the island and is attacked by Mrs. Goforth's dwarf bodyguard and his pack of vicious dogs. Although Mrs. Goforth's friend, an epicene bachelor known as the Witch of Capri, tells her that Chris has been called the "Angel of Death" because of his frequent association with dying wealthy women, she tolerates the intruder and permits him to remain in one of the guest houses adjacent to her lavish villa. Alternately repelled and attracted by the poet, Mrs. Goforth begins to rely more and more on his presence as her health gradually wanes. Ultimately forced to accept the inevitable, she invites Chris into her bedroom and collapses. As he sits by her side and prepares her for death, Chris slowly removes her fortune in jewels. After she has died, he wanders out onto the terrace, pours himself a large snifter of brandy, drops a huge diamond into it, and lets the glass fall to the sea below.
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