Summary This is the end of a glorious military career: General Leo Fitzjohn retires to his Sussex manor where he will write his memoirs. Unfortunately, his private life is a disaster: a confirmed womanizer, Leo has infuriated his wife Emily, now a shrewish and hypochondriac woman, all the more bitter as she still loves him. The General has two plain-looking daughters he dislikes and an attractive French mistress, Ghislaine, with whom he has had a platonic affair for seventeen years. When Ghislaine resurfaces, determined to complete her love with him and to get rid of Emily, Leo is at a loss what to do... View more details
Directed : John Guillermin
Written : Wolf Mankowitz Jean Anouilh Lucienne Hill
Stars : Dany Robin Peter Sellers John Fraser Margaret Leighton
Genres : Comedy Drama
Release date : Sep 18, 1962
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English French
Filming locations : Sussex, England, UK
Production companies : Independent Artists Julian Wintle/Leslie Parkyn Productions
Summary This is the end of a glorious military career: General Leo Fitzjohn retires to his Sussex manor where he will write his memoirs. Unfortunately, his private life is a disaster: a confirmed womanizer, Leo has infuriated his wife Emily, now a shrewish and hypochondriac woman, all the more bitter as she still loves him. The General has two plain-looking daughters he dislikes and an attractive French mistress, Ghislaine, with whom he has had a platonic affair for seventeen years. When Ghislaine resurfaces, determined to complete her love with him and to get rid of Emily, Leo is at a loss what to do... View more details
Genres : Comedy Drama
Release date : Sep 18, 1962
Countries of origin : United Kingdom
Language : English French
Filming locations : Sussex, England, UK
Production companies : Independent Artists Julian Wintle/Leslie Parkyn Productions
