A wife, a detective, and a husband who should've minded his own business.
A strait-laced British banker hires an eccentric private detective to follow his free-spirited American wife, whom he suspects is cheating on him.
Acting
Topol's magnetic weirdness; Farrow's luminous mischief.
Direction
Reed's late-career gem—elegant, unhurried, deeply human.
Production
1972 London locations that feel like another planet now.
Director
Carol Reed
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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