Director:
Conrad RooksWriter:
Conrad RooksProducer:
Conrad RooksCinematographers:
David Larcher, Robert FrankEditor:
Kenout PeltierProduction Designer:
Régis PagniezProduction Company:
Conrad RooksFilmed in France, Mexico, India, England, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Jamaica, and the United States. Rooks bought the rights from Universal in Jan 1968 and rereleased Chappaqua in Nov 1970 through his Minotaur Releasing Co. ...
Filmed in France, Mexico, India, England, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Jamaica, and the United States. Rooks bought the rights from Universal in Jan 1968 and rereleased Chappaqua in Nov 1970 through his Minotaur Releasing Co.
Russel Harwick, the son of a wealthy American business executive, has been an alcoholic since he was 14 and a drug addict since he was 19. At 27 he is in the final stages of heroin addiction, when his father's death shocks him into wanting to be cured. He arrives in Paris for a sleep cure and is driven to a rest home on the outskirts of the city. During Russel's withdrawal period presided over by Doctor Benoit, he frequently has fantasies and nightmarish visions. He imagines himself under the wing of an Indian guru, floating through space with an ethereal and loving woman, and fighting off the persistent lures of his friends--especially Opium Jones, a sinister pusher. Russel is eventually cured and released from the clinic. As he leaves in a helicopter, he turns to look back, only to see himself on a balcony of the chateau that has been his ...
Russel Harwick, the son of a wealthy American business executive, has been an alcoholic since he was 14 and a drug addict since he was 19. At 27 he is in the final stages of heroin addiction, when his father's death shocks him into wanting to be cured. He arrives in Paris for a sleep cure and is driven to a rest home on the outskirts of the city. During Russel's withdrawal period presided over by Doctor Benoit, he frequently has fantasies and nightmarish visions. He imagines himself under the wing of an Indian guru, floating through space with an ethereal and loving woman, and fighting off the persistent lures of his friends--especially Opium Jones, a sinister pusher. Russel is eventually cured and released from the clinic. As he leaves in a helicopter, he turns to look back, only to see himself on a balcony of the chateau that has been his hospital-clinic.
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