A car salesman journeys to France and encounters an apparently lonely woman. He immediately begins to successfully woo her only to learn that she is actually a baron's wife. Fortunately, the baron believes in open marriages and winds up hiring the Englishman to teach his son (from an earlier marriage) everything about automobiles. Meanwhile the car salesman finds himself falling seriously in love with the wife. The baron really doesn't mind as he himself is involved with another.
Costume
Geneviève Gilles' wardrobe screams 'I married a baron for the closet.'
Cinematography
Riviera porn — every frame a postcard you'll never afford.
Director
Jean Negulesco
Michael Crawford
Harry England
Curd Jürgens
Baron De Choisis
Geneviève Gilles
Dany de Choisis
Peter Myers
Bentley
Ira von Fürstenberg
Evelyne Rossan
Mike Marshall
Paul
Didier Haudepin
Raymond
Vivian Pickles
Joycie
Lon Satton
Cole
Agathe Natanson
Monique
Georges Bever
Hotel Porter
Denise Grey
Concierge
Jeffry Wickham
Dickie
Valérie Boisgel
(uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Geneviève Gilles was Jean Negulesco's protégée and romantic partner; he cast her in multiple films despite her limited experience. This was her second-to-last acting role before disappearing from cinema entirely.
Shot in 1969 but released in 1970, the film captures the exact moment swinging London libertinism crashed into old European aristocracy — the sexual revolution's awkward tourist phase.
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