If anyone had suggested to me that Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton could be beaten out by the background scenery of a co-starring film, I would never have believed it. But that is what has happened in The Sandpiper.

As Mr. and Mrs., Elizabeth and Richard take full advantage of the opportunity to scorch the screen with torrid lovemaking, the first chance they've had to indulge in such cinematic intimacy.

When I note, in this instance, that The Sandpiper is for adults I mean less that younger folk should be kept away from it than that younger folk will find it a bore and a drag.

[A] jamboree of tastelessness, pretentiousness and unadulterated idiocy with a cynicism and venality that are indeed something to behold.