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Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs.

Movie version of playwright Tennessee Williams' "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" involves very wealthy Flora "Sissy" Goforth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), supposedly dying, and living in a large mansion on a secluded island with her servants and nurses. Into her life comes a mysterious man, Christopher Flanders, a.k.a. "Angelo Del Morte" (Richard Burton) and Bill Ridgeway, The Witch of Capri (Noël Coward). The mysterious man may or may not be "The Angel of Death".—alfiehitchie

Flora Goforth (Elizabeth Taylor), is a 40-something millionairess widowed six times who has retired each summer to her private island in the Mediterranean. This summer, however, she learns that she is going to die from an unknown terminal illness and begins to dictate her memoirs to Miss Black, aka: Blackie (Joanna Shimkus), her long-abused secretary.

One day an aging middle aged poet, named Chris Flanders (Richard Burton), arrives on the island after being driven there by a local fisherman and journalist (Howard Taylor) to interview Mrs. Goforth. But the fisherman instead throws Chris and his luggage overboard into the bay of the island rather than travel close to a nearby dock, and speeds away.

Once on the island, Chris is attacked by Mrs. Goforth's dwarf bodyguard Rudi (Michael Dunn) and his pack of vicious dogs. Although Mrs. Goforth's friend, an effeminate bachelor known as the Witch of Capri (Noel Coward), tells her that Chris has been called the "Angel of Death" because of his frequent association with dying wealthy women, she tolerates the intruder and permits him to remain in one of the guest houses adjacent to her lavish villa in exchange for Chris agreeing to pen her life story for him in order to create a best selling book.

Alternately repelled and attracted by the poet, Mrs. Goforth begins to rely more and more on his presence as her health gradually wanes. Ultimately forced to accept the inevitable, she invites Chris into her bedroom and collapses. As he sits by her side and prepares her for death, Chris slowly removes her fortune in jewels. After she has died, he wanders out onto the terrace, pours himself a large snifter of brandy, drops a huge diamond into it, and lets the glass fall to the sea below. Hearing the glass shatter on the rocks at the bottom of the seaside cliff, Chris calls out "Boom!"