Candy (1968)

CANDY  (1968)  ¢ ¢
    D: Christian Marquand
    Ewa Aulin, Richard Burton, Walter Matthau,
    James Coburn, Marlon Brando, Ringo Starr,
    John Huston, Charles Aznavour, John Astin
An innocent girl embarks on a series of sexual adventures in an episodic train wreck of a movie based on the once-taboo novel by Mason Hoffenberg and Terry Southern. Richard Burton plays a boozy poet. Walter Matthau's a saber-rattling Cold War general. James Coburn's a brain surgeon who knows how to put the theater into operating theater. Charles Aznavour plays a hunchback. Ringo Starr's a Mexican gardener. Marlon Brando's a crackpot guru. All of them want to get into Candy's pants, and they do, but you never really see very much. It's a mind-boggling mess, but a one-of-a-kind cult item, silly, self-indulgent, shamelessly overacted and spectacularly unfunny. If it's not Brando's most embarrassing moment on film, it should be. Buck Henry wrote the screenplay and, not coincidentally, makes a cameo appearance as a lunatic.