Word: maurey
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...more often looks stolid as a Rock. Todd has a prim fiancee and a yen for side trips. When his girl says no, he treks off to the Continent to find more accessible playmates, and for remembrance gives each a key to his flat. In Munich, he meets Nicole Maurey. In Venice, he nuzzles a handsome matron whose teen-age daughter gets the key by mistake. In the Alps, he gets stranded with blonde Elke Sommer, a scenic spectacular who conducts walking tours among the peaks...
...needs a rest by that time anyway. Bing gives it the old college try, and if he cannot sing so well as he used to or act any better than he ever did, that does not much matter either. A younger generation-represented mainly by France's Nicole Maurey, by a sort of Elvis Presley with muscles called Fabian, and by a starlet known as Tuesday Weld, who displays at least as much acting ability as Monday Wash-takes over with plenty of energy, if not much style. And Director Blake Edwards runs the show with all sorts...
...scapegoat." The problem is that, inside, the two men are basically different--the Briton kind and thoughtful, the Count cruel and selfish. Yet, despite protestations, the Count's entire household refuses to believe the two are not the same man; and only the Count's lovely Italian mistress (Nicole Maurey) senses a difference. Thus the two roles demand the subtlest of distinctions and preclude all obvious ones--a challenge Guinness meets masterfully...
...being commandeered by the colonel only by hiding the gasoline until promised a ride. Once aboard, he finds they are heading not south toward safety but north to where the colonel's heartthrob waits. As German staff cars whiz by, the colonel speaks to his lady (Nicole Maurey) of matters urgent: "In the cathedral of my heart, a candle was always burning...
...remark creeps through with the force of wisdom as well as the bite of wit. And Germany's Jürgens, curling back his lip and swirling his eyes as he exults, "I sniff battle-I'm alive again!" accomplishes the tricky task of making Actress Maurey's summation of him seem just right, and somehow regrettable: "There are no men left in this bleak, awful, modern world like...