After their smashing comedy success with NEVER ON SUNDAY, Dassin and Mercouri teamed again for this loose adaptation of
Hippolytus by Euripides, updating the story. Mercouri is married to Vallone, a powerful Greek shipping tycoon in the class of Onassis and Niarchos. She is his second
wife, and he dispatches her to London to convince his son by his first marriage, Perkins, to come home to Greece for the summer holiday. Vallone wants to teach his son the shipping business. The moment they meet, Perkins and Mercouri are attracted to one another and are soon enmeshed in a steamy
love affair that takes them to Paris. Mercouri brings Perkins back to the small isl...
Released:
1962
Rated:
NR
Length:
115 mins