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Secret Ceremony (1968)

Rate: 3
Viewed: 3/24

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3/24: After winning the Best Actress Oscar for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Elizabeth Taylor appeared in many awful films, and Secret Cermony is one of them.

Thanks to Gerry Fisher's photography of London and Netherlands, Elizabeth Taylor looks good and gets to wear nice clothes. It stars Mia Farrow and Robert Mitchum, with a beard and all, who can be easily substituted by Richard Burton, but their acting isn't the problem. It's the lifeless, albeit well-written, script that makes no sense. Hence, the thespians try to make something out of nothing but ultimately fail.

How the plot got conceived was through a short story competition, and therefore, it won the top prize along with $5,000. Yeah, okay, but this doesn't mean it should be converted into a film! While wasting the talents of Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Mitchum! And boring me to death! By the way, the unique-looking house is Debenham House of London, England.

All in all, it's been a long fall for Elizabeth Taylor.