"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."
Sophia Loren
as Epifania Parerga
Peter Sellers
as Dr. Kabir
Vittorio De Sica
as Joe
Alastair Sim
as Sagamore
Dennis Price
as Adrian
Gary Raymond
as Alastair
Miriam Karlin
as Mrs. Joe
Noel Purcell
as Professor Merton
Virginia Vernon
as Polly Smith
Eleanor Summerfield
as Mrs. Willoughby
Pauline Jameson
as Muriel Pilkington
Alfie Bass
as Fish Curer
Graham Stark
as Butler
Diana Coupland
as Nurse
Willoughby Goddard
as President
Basil Hoskins
as First Secretary
Gordon Sterne
as Second Secretary
Tempe Adam
as Gloria
Wally Patch
as Whelk Seller
Charles Hill
as Corelli
Derek Nimmo
as 3rd Secretary (uncredited)
Peter Sallis
as Minor Role (uncredited)
Anthony Asquith
Director
George Bernard Shaw
Theatre Play
Riccardo Aragno
Screenplay
Wolf Mankowitz
Pierre Rouve
Producer
Dimitri De Grunwald
Executive Producer
Georges Van Parys
Original Music Composer
Jack Hildyard
Director of Photography
Anthony Harvey
Editor
Pierre Balmain
Costume Design
Harry White
Art Direction
Paul Sheriff
Production Design
Pamela Cornell
Set Dresser