One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.
Costume
Three eras of jaw-dropping haute couture in one vehicle.
Production
Metrocolor so lush you'll weep at the yellow paint job.
Director
Anthony Asquith
Ingrid Bergman
Gerda Millett
Rex Harrison
The Marquess of Frinton
Shirley MacLaine
Mae Jenkins
Jeanne Moreau
The Marchioness of Frinton
George C. Scott
Paolo Maltese
Omar Sharif
Davich
Alain Delon
Stefano
Art Carney
Joey Friedlander
Joyce Grenfell
Hortense Astor
Edmund Purdom
Fane
Michael Hordern
Harnsworth
Lance Percival
Assistant Car Salesman
Roland Culver
Norwood
Moira Lister
Lady St. Simeon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The actual Rolls-Royce used was a 1931 Phantom II, not yellow — they painted three different cars for production.
Anthology films were briefly fashionable in the 1960s as star vehicles; this was Asquith's glossy attempt to out-grand-hotel Grand Hotel.
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