Acting
James Mason slumming gloriously, Jean Seberg wasted but magnetic.
Direction
Romain Gary's only film—novelist's eye for lurid detail.
Production
Rotterdam and Rome locations reeking of authentic 1971 sleaze.
Director
Romain Gary
Stephen Boyd
Brad Killian
Jean Seberg
Emily Hamilton
James Mason
Alan Hamilton
Curd Jürgens
Grueningen
Daniel Emilfork
Mejid
Mauro Parenti
Cremona
José María Caffarel
Algate
Memphis Slim
Himself
Henri Garcin
Lawyer
Víctor Israel
Baron
Aldo Sambrell
Carcopino
Luciano Pigozzi
Medina
Cris Huerta
Nico Bizanthios
Tito García
Spyros Bizanthios
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Romain Gary directed this after winning a fake Oscar—he'd already won Best Original Screenplay as 'Emile Ajar,' a pseudonym he kept secret even from his wife.
Released months before Seberg's mysterious death; her FBI-targeted activism makes Emily's victimhood feel queasily prophetic.
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