Candy
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Christian Marquand
Ewa Aulin
Charles Aznavour
Marlon Brando
Richard Burton
James Coburn
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
After being reprimanded for her lack of intellectual interests by her father, Candy, a naive adolescent, attends a reading given by the alcoholic Welsh poet McPhisto, who plies her with drink. In her gameroom she is assaulted by Emmanuel, the Mexican gardener. Displeased to discover her in Emmanuel's embrace, her schoolteacher father decides to exile Candy to New York City. En route to the airport, however, Candy is pursued by Emmanuel's three sisters, outraged because he has forsaken his priestly ambition. After an altercation, Candy boards the plane of General Smight, who exacts her favors in exchange for a transfusion for her injured father. In New York her father is the patient of egomaniacal brain surgeon Krankeit. Following the operation, the patient wanders away unnoticed. Candy visits Greenwich Village and participates in a pornographic film shot in a public lavatory by Jonathan J. John. She then encounters a benevolent hunchback in Central Park, who is afterwards revealed to be an archcriminal. In the trailer of a truck Candy discovers Grindl the Guru, a magus who teaches her the secrets of life during a drive to California. Searching for the Great Buddha, Candy finds a filthy hermit. He escorts her to a temple, where the pair have sexual relations. As a deluge destroys the temple and cleanses the hermit, Candy discovers that her lover has been her apparently amnesiac father. At a love-in, Candy is reunited with her many sexual partners, all in hippie garb, and afterwards assumed into the heavens.
Director
Christian Marquand
Cast
Ewa Aulin
Charles Aznavour
Marlon Brando
Richard Burton
James Coburn
John Huston
Walter Matthau
Ringo Starr
John Astin
Elsa Martinelli
Sugar Ray Robinson
Anita Pallenberg
Lea Padovani
Florinda Bolkan
Marilù Tolo
Nicoletta Machiavelli
Umberto Orsini
Joey Forman
Fabian Dean
Peggy Nathan
Neal Noorlac
Peter Dane
Tony Foutz
Tom Keyes
Micaela Pignatelli
Mark Salvage
Enzo Fiermonte
Enrico Maria Salerno
Members Of The Living Theatre
Crew
Giancarlo Cappelli
Mario Celentano
Joe Chevalier
Francesco Cinieri
Gordon Daniel
Stanley Davis
Basil Fenton-smith
Mia Fonssagrives
Gray Frederickson
Dave Grusin
Dave Grusin
Robert Haggiag
Buck Henry
Boris Juraga
John Kay
Augie Lohman
Don Lurio
Mario Mariani
Roger Mcguinn
Enrico Medioli
Rushton Moreve
Robert Nelson
Vico Pavoni
Giuseppe Rotunno
Enrico Sabbatini
Luciano Sacripanti
Frank Santillo
Selig J. Seligman
Dean Tavoularis
Vicki Tiel
Douglas Trumbull
Nadia Vitali
Tom Walker
Harold Wellman
Giancarlo Zagni
Peter Zoref
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Film's writer is the strait-jacketed man in the elevator who becomes agitated at mention of Dr. Krankheit.
Notes
Filmed on location in Rome, New York City, and in the desert near Barstow, California. Original running time: 124 min. Opened in Paris in August 1970; running time: 110 min. Italian title: Candy e il sul pazzo mondo.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Winter December 17, 1968
dubbed English version
Released in United States Winter December 17, 1968
