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The notorious best-seller by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg is brought to the screen in all of it's satirically erotic, psychedelic glory, as naive and luscious teenager Ewa Aulin finds the road to sexual awakening is paved with kooks who want to seduce her. Among them are guru Marlon Brando, poet Richard Burton, general Walter Matthau, surgeon James Coburn, gardener Ringo Starr, hunchback Charles Aznavour, and even uncle and father John Astin (in dual roles). 124 min.

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This lush, Technicolor tragic romance from Luchino Visconti (Le notti bianche, The Leopard) stars Alida Valli (The Third Man, Eyes Without a Face) as a nineteenth-century Italian countess who, amid the Austrian occupation of her country, puts her marriage and political principles on the line by engaging in a torrid affair with a dashing Austrian lieutenant, played by Farley Granger (Rope, Strangers on a Train). Gilded with fearless performances, ornate costumes and sets, and a rich classical soundtrack, Visconti�s operatic melodrama is an extraordinary evocation of reckless emotions and deranged lust from one of the cinema�s great sensualists.