“The Poppy is Also a Flower” is a crime drama movie about United Nations agents attempting to track an opium shipment from Iran to Europe to expose a major drug smuggling operation. Director Terence Young (“Dr. No” 1962) put together this exciting made-for-television movie with an excellent teleplay by Jo Eisinger and story by Ian Fleming. It first aired on the ABC television network in 1966.
The talented cast includes Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson, Rita Hayworth, Trevor Howard, Trini Lopez, E. G. Marshall, Marcello Mastroianni, Anthony Quayle, Gilbert Roland, Omar Shariff, Barry Sullivan, Hugh Griffith, Jack Hawkins, Amedeo Nazzari, Harold Sakata, Nadja Tiller, and Eli Wallach as drug kingpin Happy Locarno. (Wallach won the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor.) Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly known as Grace Kelly, served as the host and narrator of the very watchable “The Poppy is Also a Flower.”
The Poppy is Also a Flower (1966)
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My Review
“The Poppy is Also a Flower” is a crime drama movie about United Nations agents attempting to track an opium shipment from Iran to Europe to expose a major drug smuggling operation. Director Terence Young (“Dr. No” 1962) put together this exciting made-for-television movie with an excellent teleplay by Jo Eisinger and story by Ian Fleming. It first aired on the ABC television network in 1966.
The talented cast includes Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson, Rita Hayworth, Trevor Howard, Trini Lopez, E. G. Marshall, Marcello Mastroianni, Anthony Quayle, Gilbert Roland, Omar Shariff, Barry Sullivan, Hugh Griffith, Jack Hawkins, Amedeo Nazzari, Harold Sakata, Nadja Tiller, and Eli Wallach as drug kingpin Happy Locarno. (Wallach won the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor.) Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly known as Grace Kelly, served as the host and narrator of the very watchable “The Poppy is Also a Flower.”