The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
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The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore was a 1963 play written by Tennessee Williams that was adapted into the 1968 film, Boom!, with writing help from Gore Vidal.
As a play, it made its debut at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Italy in 1962. Its first American production was in January 1963, but it only ran for 69 shows in New York. Reviews of the play were generally poor .
[edit] Synopsis
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The play is set in Italy and centres on a wealthy old woman, a Mrs Goforth, who catches a young man, Christopher Flanders, allegedly trespassing on her estate. Dialogue between the two makes up much of the play, and in the end the former dies after a long struggle against a terminal illness.
Spoilers end here.
[edit] References
- ↑ About Tennessee Williams and The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
- ↑ The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
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