Waltz of the Toreadors
1962 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
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...
Direction John Guillermin
Cast Peter Sellers · Dany Robin · Margaret Leighton · John Fraser · Cyril Cusack · Prunella Scales · Denise Coffey · Jean Anderson · Raymond Huntley · Cardew Robinson · John Glyn-Jones · John Le Mesurier
Soundtrack Richard Addinsell
Screenplay Lucienne Hill · Wolf Mankowitz · Jean Anouilh
Cinematography John Wilcox
Original title Waltz of the Toreadors (The Amorous General)
5.3
45 votes (FilmAffinity)
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