Considering the talent involved and there is a lot of big name talent involved in this multi character drama, it should have been a lot better. As it is it's just a passable old fashioned British time killer of a film. The film consists of three short stories all tied together with the gimmick being that in each story at one time or another a character owns The Yellow Rolls Royce which is featured in the film.
The first story stars Rex Harrison and Jeanne Moreau as an English Lord who slowly comes to realize that his wife has been cheating on him. Harrison is good as always and manages to make this very conventional story interesting.
Finally the last segment with the car stars Ingrid Bergman as a rich American tourist who happens to arrive in Yugoslavia just as World War II breaks out. Bergman ends up getting involved with the Yugoslavian partisans in particular Omar Sharif. Bergman and Sharif certainly make a good looking couple. Their love story is probably the best segment in the film.
The film was made by the same team who had done another multi character film called The V.I.P.s. That film surprisingly made money so this film was a matter of getting lighting to strike twice.
The producer was Anatole de Grunwald who had an impressive career in the British cinema. The director Anthony Asquith was a reliable craftsman and the writer Terence Rattigan was an important playwright and screenwriter. However it's safe to say no one involved was trying very hard on this production. The film has that lazy shot in the studio look to it and it's kind of a clueless show considering 1964 was the year of films like A Hard Day's Night, Dr. Strangelove and From Russia with Love.
The running time is 122 minutes.
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