Travels with My Aunt (film)

Travels with My Aunt is a 1972 American comedy film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Jay Presson Allen and Hugh Wheeler is based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Graham Greene.

Augusta asks Henry to accompany her to Paris and he agrees, unaware she actually is smuggling 50,000 out of England and transporting it to Turkey for a gangster named Crowder Robert Flemyng in exchange for a 10,000 fee she can put toward the ransom. The two board the Orient Express, where Henry meets Tooley Cindy Williams, a young American hippie who takes a liking to him and gets him to smoke French cigarettes marijuana with her. When the train reaches Milan, Augusta is greeted by her illegitimate son Mario Raymond Grme, who presents her with a bouquet of flowers and an ear that supposedly belongs to Ercole.When they arrive at the Turkish border, Augustas plot is uncovered by officials who send her and Henry back to Paris. There Augusta attempts to secure the money she needs from her former lover Achille Dambreuse Jos Luis Lpez Vzquez, but the wealthy Frenchman dies of a heart attack in her hotel suite before she achieves her goal. Efforts to extort 100,000 from Achilles widow in return for their silence about the adulterous circumstances of his death fail, and Augusta decides to sell a valuable portrait of herself she claims was painted by Amedeo Modigliani to raise the money. ........

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