It beggars belief that United Artists went all the way to the South of France to squander vast amounts of money in the service of the hubris of a powerful star.
Surrounded by veterans like Charles Boyer (reduced to delivering lines like "Let's get with it!") Glenn Ford's ego was indulged to the tune of giving his girl friend Hope Lange a showy part as an heiress who gets her kicks racing cars (showing not one iota of the grace and charm she later brought to the TV series 'The Ghost and Mrs Muir'.
The plot - for want of a better word - concerns a male Eliza Doolittle played by Ricardo Montalban - whose grasp of idiomatic English progresses with surprising speed - while the lovely Ulla Jacobson is squandered in a thankless supporting role (strangely coming with an 'introducing' credit).
The biggest surprise is Michel Legrand's name on the credits for the terrible score.
Surrounded by veterans like Charles Boyer (reduced to delivering lines like "Let's get with it!") Glenn Ford's ego was indulged to the tune of giving his girl friend Hope Lange a showy part as an heiress who gets her kicks racing cars (showing not one iota of the grace and charm she later brought to the TV series 'The Ghost and Mrs Muir'.
The plot - for want of a better word - concerns a male Eliza Doolittle played by Ricardo Montalban - whose grasp of idiomatic English progresses with surprising speed - while the lovely Ulla Jacobson is squandered in a thankless supporting role (strangely coming with an 'introducing' credit).
The biggest surprise is Michel Legrand's name on the credits for the terrible score.