Cinema: Junk

The Poppy Is Also a Flower is another James Bond movie made without James Bond, and many will wish it had been filmed without film.

As it is, the picture offers one interesting scene: the screen credits. They reveal that Poppy was developed from an idea proposed by Author Ian Fleming, who mercifully died before he could see what happened to it; that the man principally responsible for what happened is Director Terence Young, who in Dr. No struck the first big Bondanza and that what happened is performed by an awful lot of people...

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