A producer is obsessed with turning his wife into a sexy star, ignoring her needs, and prompting her to return to France, where she becomes attracted to an attentive pilot, and ensuing a revenge plot by a jealous husband, that goes astray.
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Leslie Caron | ... | Ann Garantier | |
| Henry Fonda | ... | Willie Bauche | |
| Cesare Danova | ... | Major Marco Ranieri | |
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Myron McCormick | ... | Preacher |
| Marcel Dalio | ... | Le Marne | |
| Conrad Nagel | ... | G.K. Brody | |
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Edwin Jerome | ... | The Baron |
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Bern Hoffman | ... | Soprano |
| Harry Ellerbe | ... | Norman Kress | |
| Frank Cady | ... | John Milstead | |
| Ben Astar | ... | French Doctor | |
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Willie Bauche, a Hollywood producer, becomes so obsessed with turning his wife, Ann Garantier, into the sexiest star in Hollywood that he neglects her real needs. Feeling lonely and tired of Tinseltown, Ann returns to her native France and finds herself attracted to Marco Ranieri, a handsome and very attentive pilot. When Willie hears about the budding affair, he flies into a rage and hires assassins to kill his rival. Unfortunately for him, the killers are romantics and decide that Ann and Marco are so in love that both must die so they can be together always. When Willie finds out, he rushes over to France to try and save his wife.
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Preacher: Would Romeo have put a tail on Juliet?
Willie Bauche: No, and that's probably why he's not with us today. Romeo happens to be the most overrated practitioner in the history of romance. Who else but a medieval Mortimer Snerd could have managed to get his whole wedding party knocked off?
Preacher: Women don't like being tailed, Sire, especially women who are wives.
Willie Bauche: Did you smell that ...
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Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster
Music by Robert Emmett Dolan
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Willie Bauche: [Willie's dressed in an Arab costume] Micky's okay. That gangster stuff is all in the past. He's strictly legit now. Nothing but slot machines.Preacher: Would Romeo have put a tail on Juliet?
Willie Bauche: No, and that's probably why he's not with us today. Romeo happens to be the most overrated practitioner in the history of romance. Who else but a medieval Mortimer Snerd could have managed to get his whole wedding party knocked off?
Preacher: Women don't like being tailed, Sire, especially women who are wives.
Willie Bauche: Did you smell that ...
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23 October 1959 (West Germany) See more »Also Known As:
Über den Gassen von Nizza See more »Filming Locations:
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I don't give this movie as low a rating that many had. It was an ok movie. It's listed as a comedy, that's the reason I wanted to watch it. But it's not a funny movie at all. If you want laughs from a movie, watch something else, this is not for you.