The read
Audiences rate it 34 points higher than critics do. It runs a compact 1h 29m.
Synopsis
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.
Ratings
IMDb5.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes20%
Audiences rate it 34 points higher than critics do.
42 audience votes
Key crew
- Anthony AsquithDirector
- Riccardo AragnoScreenplay
- Wolf MankowitzScreenplay
- Georges Van ParysOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Sophia LorenEpifania Parerga
- Peter SellersDr. Kabir
- Vittorio De SicaJoe
- Alastair SimSagamore
- Dennis PriceAdrian
- Gary RaymondAlastair
- Miriam KarlinMrs. Joe
- Noel PurcellProfessor Merton
- Virginia VernonPolly Smith
- Eleanor SummerfieldMrs. Willoughby
- Pauline JamesonMuriel Pilkington
- Alfie BassFish Curer