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To me, this movie is perfection.

A Masterpiece!

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Somewhere among my books is a paperback novelization of this film, which I read in public school when I was having lunch. I had seen the film and I did so enjoy looking at that car. There is nothing so pleasing as to see a classic limousine automobile of the 1920s to early 1940s, particularly a Rolls-Royce. This one came complete with French telephone connection between the driver and the people in the sedan coach of the car.Basically the plot of this film (particularly in the opening sequence with Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, and Edmund Purdom) is an extension (if you will) of a brief scene in the film NOW VOYAGER, where Bette Davis and a young actor playing the wireless officer on a P.& O. Steamer meet in the cab of an automobile that is in the cargo bay of the ship. The Rolls Royce, always a symbol of opulence, is used for lovers' trysts. First between Moreau and Purdom (her aristocratic husband's secretary); second between gangster's moll Shirley Maclaine and photographer Alain Delon); and last between right wing millionaire socialite Ingrid Bergman and Yugoslav partisan leader Omar Shariff.The stories are separated from each other by two to three years so we are aware as we watch the tales of the coming of the Second World War (although the middle episode deals with American gangster George C. Scott taking care of a rival back home)*. Harrison's Marquis is reminiscent of Lord Halifax and other too accommodating diplomats at Whitehall who were unwilling to counsel a firm, even warlike stand against the Nazis and Fascists. Bergman is like so many upper crust Americans who saw the war as a foreign matter...not for American concerns. She even (like Charles Foster Kane in the newsreel at the start of that film) has met the leaders in Italy and Germany and been reassure by them. It is only after she witnesses an unprovoked bombing on Belgrade where children are wounded that she begins to realize just who the monsters were she was relying on the words of.(*Interestingly enough there is an episode in the novelization that is just mentioned in passing about an Indian Prince who owns the car after Harrison's Marquis. The Prince spends money quite freely until caught short...and forced to sell the car in Italy. It might have been an interesting episode too if it had been in the film.) The stories are pretty well told, but it is of three impossible love stories. Moreau may be fooling with Purdom but she has no intention of leaving Harrison (but he is terribly hurt at the end, and even hates the sight of the car at the conclusion of that episode). Maclaine dumps Delon (on the advice of her "chaperone" Art Carney) to save him from Scott (who is aware of what happened, but remains quiet because Maclaine came back in line). Bergman (unlike the other two) would have stayed with Sharif, but he realizes that she is more useful warning her fellow plutocrats of what is really going on...and getting the U.S. ready to help the Europeans end these evil invaders. She and he hope to reunite, but it's a war and they don't know.The result is a good film, a historic soap opera of the 1930s-1941. The leads are good as are supporting players Carney, Joyce Grenville, and even Wally Cox in a brief scene as a helpless American diplomat trying to get Bergman to return to the U.S. It is a good film (as was said elsewhere) for a rainy afternoon. A film for the ages? Hardly, but it is entertaining enough.

What a visual treat to see the scenery of Europe, along with the acting talents of some of my very favorite performers! Three couples own a fabulous car over a period of years, each with a story worth telling. Rex Harrison presents a touching, surprisingly sympathetic husband who loves his wife too much. Jeanne Moreau is the cheating wife, probably the weakest female of the three. In act two, Shirley MacLaine shines as the gangster moll with a heart, who falls in love with the impossibly gorgeous Alain Delon. George C. Scott plays a part totally unlike any of his others, and Art Carney is a sweet cameo.I especially loved the final act of the trio, when aristocratic Ingrid Bergman, in a multi-layered performance, helps resistance fighter Omar Sharif (I could watch him brush his teeth for two hours!) transport his colleagues to safety in Yugoslavia during WWII. The car is almost a character in itself, as is Bergman's little dog, who plays her part with gusto. I especially loved the comedic moments so beautifully played by Ms. Bergman. She and Sharif make a gorgeous, sensitive couple, and are eye candy for those of us who love fanciful, impossible love affairs. A wonderful film for a rainy afternoon.

IMDb has it listed as a goof that: In the first segment Rex Harrison asks that the phone be moved to the left side of the back seat, but in subsequent segments the phone is still on the right side...POSSIBLE SPOILER BUT Rex Harrison only owns the car for two days! When he asks that the phone be moved (and some other request) the Rolls Royce man tells him that it will take a week. But Rex needs it that very day as an anniversary present because the following day is the big horse race. They don't have time to move the phone before he takes delivery of the car. When the car arrives he remarks to his wife that he will have the phone moved. But the very next day he sends the car back.So why does IMDb list as a goof the fact that the car is still on the left side?!

And also some ravishing scenery. This movie has three separate segments, all of them well done in spite of a pretty tepid script. The actors are magnificent but I would have to say that Shirley MacLaine was amazing as a gangster's moll who falls in love and then sacrifices that love to save his life. Beautifully acted. Omar and Ingrid also shine in the segment about fighting in the hills of Yugoslavia. Of course in all three of the stories the males are mere foils for the females and the car itself. This movie is definitely a "guilty pleasure." 7 out of 10.