The Christian Licorice Store (1971) | Full Movie | w/ Beau Bridges, Maud Adams, Gilbert Roland, Allan Arbus, Anne Randall, McLean Stevenson

Drama | Comedy | USA | Colour | English | 82min w/ Beau Bridges, Maud Adams, Gilbert Roland, Allan Arbus, Anne Randall, McLean Stevenson A Hollywood tennis champion (Beau Bridges) slowly becomes a tool of commercialism and a symbol of decadence and excess. Franklin Cane (Beau Bridges) is a red-hot professional tennis player who climbs the ladder of success with his trainer, Jonathan (Gilbert Roland), at his side. Jonathan was once considered the greatest American tennis player and intends to guide Franklin to the high-road. Franklin does not transcend the interest he has in local Hollywood-type parties littered with has-beens, wannabes and think-they-ares. It is there that he meets Cynthia (Maud Adams), a photographer who makes a living photographing people like French filmmaker Jean Renoir and taking production photos of commercials. Cane becomes slowly seduced by the fast-track life and, when Jonathan suddenly passes away, he succumbs completely to a lifestyle that is completely devoid of morality.