
Audiences were lured by promises of pill-popping Sixties sexual freedom, but instead got a creepy British lecturer droning about birth control - before plunging viewers into recycled footage from Test Tube Babies (1948), endin in a surreal color sequence where a man develops facial sores and a green hand requiring doctors to extract what appears to be Silly Putty from his chest!
Directed by George Weiss, The Pill leans on a strong ensemble — John Scott-Maitland, Monica Davis, Timothy Farrell — to carry a story that balances spectacle with character.
The film landed with audiences for its craft and performances, and remains one of the most talked-about screen titles of 1967.
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