Roman Candles

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1967

Comedy

28 minutes

Summary

Shot on 8mm, and featuring the introduction of Divine, John Waters' sophomore film is a plotless collage of random incidents involving sex, drugs, religion and The Wizard of Oz, it was shown with an equally random soundtrack mixing “obnoxious radio advertisements, rock 'n' roll and press conferences with Lee Harvey Oswald's mother”. It was shown three times publicly, but never released commercially.

~ A triple projected trash epic
John Waters

Director

StatusReleased: 58 years ago
May 10, 1967

LanguageEnglish

Spoken LanguagesEnglish

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