The Poppy Is Also a Flower

1966

Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 38% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 38% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 1145 1.1K

opium narcotics cop

Plot summary

A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.

Director

Henry Levin Photo
Henry Levin

Top cast

Trevor Howard Photo
Trevor Howard as Sam Lincoln
Senta Berger Photo
Senta Berger as Maxine
Marilù Tolo Photo
Marilù Tolo as Sophia Banzo
Bessie Love Photo
Bessie Love as Minor Role
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672.69 MB
1204*720
English 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 40 min
Seeds 1
1.42 GB
1792*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 40 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by AlsExGal 5 / 10

One of three movies produced by the United Nations

I'm not sure if this came up on a recent discussion of the three United Nations-produced 20th-anniversary movies, but I'd always been curious to see it since coming across descriptions way back in TV Guide. I'd remembered clicking onto the beginning years ago as a kid, with the informative "educational" prologue by Grace Kelly, and thought the entire movie was a public-service documentary on the UN's efforts to stop international drug trade.Nope--The producers had hired Ian Fleming to write the screen story, Terence "From Russia With Love" Young as director, and a host of charity-benefit stars (who were reportedly paid $1 each for services rendered), and if that sounds like they were setting out to do a faux do it yourself 007 Bond film, they succeeded. There were a lot of bad international Bond-knockoffs at the height of its 60's mania, but this one got the right ingredients, and captures Young's exact feel for the first three Sean Connery 007's, which were as much about the procedural investigation and globe-trotting locales as the car chases.
Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 6 / 10

International thriller in the Bond mould

POPPIES ARE ALSO FLOWERS is a surprisingly decent little international thriller made in the Bond mould - Ian Fleming wrote it and Terence Young was even called in to direct. The film's progeny is of interest, given that it was a propaganda piece made by the United Nations to show off their abilities. E.G. Marshall and Trevor Howard play a pair of UN investigators hoping to stop an opium smuggling gang operating out of Iran, and their detection leads them to a number of slippery customers based around the world. I only know of Marshall through his roles in the likes of CREEPSHOW, so it was a surprise to see him playing an action hero here and even more of a surprise that he makes a decent stab of it. There's not a wealth of action but the train-set climax more than makes up for that with some great fight scenes. The film is well worth a watch for Bond fans looking for a pseudo-enterprise in the same mould, and an endless array of both international and Hollywood stars keeps you involved in the story: Yul Brynner, Jack Hawkins, Hugh Griffith, Anthony Quayle, Eli Wallach and even Rita Hayworth all show up to good effect here.
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