The Poppy Is Also a Flower
“The story of another war more deadly...more destructive...against the world wide opium conspiracy.”
Terence YoungCast
Senta Berger 
Stephen Boyd 
Yul Brynner 
Angie Dickinson 
Georges Géret 
Hugh Griffith
Credits
Written by: Jo Eisinger
Plot
A special UN narcotics team traces the flow of heroin from the Golden Triangle to the West, across many countries.
Sinekatalog’s take
Terence Young's all-star drama, with Yul Brynner, Marcello Mastroianni, Omar Sharif and Trevor Howard, is a curious, rough and star-packed anti-drug film produced by the UN.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 5.2 / 10 (1,101 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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