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Opium | Narcotics Cop
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Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama | 1967 | Eli
Terence Young and Euan Lloyd worked for free while all of the big-name cast members were paid one dollar for their work.
The United Nations Secretary General asked Xerox to sponsor this production for the U.S., which it did. The on-screen credit says: "This film was produced as a public service through funds provided by the XEROX CORPORATION".
This movie was promoted on U.S. television under the title "The Poppy Is Also a Flower", but when it was actually shown, the on-screen title was "Poppies Are Also Flowers".
Grace Kelly's only completed movie since retiring from the screen in 1957. She was also a front runner for Marnie (1964) (for her favorite director, Sir Alfred Hitchcock) and, at the time of her death, was preparing an official comeback with the never-completed 1982 drama Rearranged (1982), which would have paired her with Edward Meeks and Robert Dornhelm.
Based on a story outline by Ian Fleming, who died before he could complete the screenplay.
"Coley Jones: [sitting down after she directs him] Is this place taken? Madame, would you mind if I smoked? Coley Jones: [waving his pack of cigars at her] I noticed you took a pill. I thought perhaps... Monique Marko: Huh? Nothing. Small headache. Coley Jones: Are you sure the smoke won't distress you? Monique Marko: I'm never distressed by smoke. Surely not. But thank you. Coley Jones: Not at all. I have a headache myself. I wonder if it would be too much to ask if, eh... Monique Marko: [giving him the pill packet] The aspirin? Coley Jones: [purposefully knocking her handbag off the table as he takes the pill packet] Oh, I am sorry... Monique Marko: Don't worry. It's not important. Coley Jones: [picking up the handbag and detecting traces of the opium] Very clumsy of me. I'm terribly sorry. Would you allow me to buy you a drink? Monique Marko: No thank you. Alcohol doesn't agree with me. Coley Jones: Are you travelling alone? Monique Marko: [picking up her poodle] Alone? Oh, no. I always have Toutou. Dit "bonsoir", Toutou. Coley Jones: Bonsoir, Toutou. You're a fine looking fella. Monique Marko: He loves being flattered. Coley Jones: He seems to understand every word you say. Monique Marko: Oh, yes. Toutou and I always have conversation. Toutou is most understanding. Coley Jones: All my life I've wanted to meet a truly understanding dog. Perhaps we could write to each other. Where does Toutou live? Monique Marko: In my mind. Coley Jones: Then I'll write to Toutou, care of the mind of Madame, er... Monique Marko: No. Because I also live in the mind of another... Coley Jones: Who's mind is that? [she gets up and leaves without replying]"
"[first lines] Grace Kelly - Self: [to the camera as she holds a poppy flower] The poppy has no smell... not even the smell of evil. It's just a... an ordinary flower: bright, innocent looking. And yet, there are many, many people who would have to be convinced - and it would take some convincing - that the poppy is also a flower, for to them the poppy is the source of the only pleasures that are left to them... the sickening, deadening pleasures of drug taking, drugs like heroin, cocaine, morphine that are the refined products of the opium, which the seeds of this poppy can produce. All from this simple, innocent flower. The sickness, not a particularly new one, but a sickness that is spreading day by day, nearly every country in the world, and what is truly serious and really tragic, a sickness that is spreading amongst the young people all around us... but all from this simple flower. The problem of drug taking, of drug addiction, is one that nobody can avoid, from which nobody can turn away, because it is has become a part of the life all around us, and forgive me if I say it again of the young lives that are growing up with us. But as it's not yet too late, as there still is time, people all over the world are anxious to help, starting, well, right from where it should start, with the United Nations, where the producing countries are trying to combine in the controlling of the opium poppy itself in its growth. Today, in the story that we are going to tell you, we're trying to show how the United Nations and individual nations work to stamp out this evil. Starting in our story, the only country that has voluntarily abolished all growing of the poppy fields or opium harvesting, at a great financial loss to themselves, but these are people who are trying to set a lead for others to follow: the people of Iran."
