The Yellow Rolls Royce

The Yellow RollsRoyce is a 1964 dramatic composite film written by Terence Rattigan, produced by Anatole de Grunwald and directed by Anthony Asquith, the trio responsible for The V.I.P.s 1963.

On a flatbed lorry driven in the streets of London, a motor car is under a grey cover with the initials RR. The Rolls Royce is first purchased by Charles, Marquess of Frinton Rex Harrison as a 10th wedding anniversary present for his French wife, Eloise Jeanne Moreau. Frinton is UnderSecretary of State at the Foreign Office. The marquess is a longtime horse owner who has his heart set on winning the Ascot Gold Cup. This year his horse, namedJune his wedding anniversary date also the writer Terence Rattigans birthday is the favourite and does indeed win. Lord Frinton is presented the Gold Cup by King George V. However, his elation is blighted when he finds his wife with her lover, his underling John Fane Edmund Purdom, in the back of the Rolls with the shades drawn. For appearances sake, Lord Frinton will not divorce his wife, but he returns the car.20,023 miles later, Genoa, Italy The Rolls, according to G. Bomba, owner of the Genova Auto Salon was owned by a Maharajah, who lost his money at the San Remo Casino. The Rolls is purchased by American gangster Paolo Maltese George C. Scott. He is touring the sights of Italy with his bored fiance Mae Jenkins Shirley MacLaine and his righthand man Joey Friedlander Art Carney. When Maltese returns to Miami to take care of some unsavory business, he leaves Friedlander to chaperone Jenkins. Friedlander turns a blind eye when she falls in love with Stefano Alain Delon, a handsome young street photographer she had met while still with Maltese. Upon finding Jenkins and Stefano in the back of the Rolls with the shades drawn, Friedlander walks away. But he later shows Jenkins an eightdayold American newspaper headline, Bugs O Leary SlainPolice Claim Gang Warfare, that was Malteses business in the United States. Although in love with Stefano, Jenkins reluctantly leaves him, telling him that it was just a fling, to protect both of them from possible reprisal from her lethal boyfriend Maltese. ........

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