The Poppy Is Also a Flower

“The story of another war more deadly...more destructive...against the world wide opium conspiracy.”

5.8(21)19661h 40m

CrimeDramaMystery

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

Terence Young

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Cast

Senta Berger

Maxine

Stephen Boyd

Benson

Yul Brynner

Colonel Salem

Angie Dickinson

Linda Benson

Georges Géret

Superintendent Roche

Hugh Griffith

Salah Rahman Khan

Jack Hawkins

General Bahar

Rita Hayworth

Monique Marko

Trevor Howard

Sam Lincoln

Trini López

Himself

E.G. Marshall

Coley Jones

Marcello Mastroianni

Inspector Mosca

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

5.0

The opening dose of earnest monologue from Princess Grace of Monaco gives us a clue as to what we might be in for here. It's a clunkily stitched together series of cameos built around the process of identifying and stopping those bent on exporting opium from Iran to, ultimately via Europe, the United States. Yul Brynner ("Col. Salem") starts off the process working with the Imperial authorities in...