John Gavin

In a motion picture designed to save the world from sanity, the legendary four-time Academy Award-winner Katharine Hepburn ("Love Affair," "On Golden Pond," "The Philadelphia Story") stars as an aged eccentric countess who enlists the aid of three cronies in perpetrating a zany plot to defeat the dehumanizing establishment and rid the world of evil. Co-starring Richard Chamberlain ("The Thorn Birds," "Shogun") and Yul Brynner ("The King and I").

Based on the Ferenc Molnar play Olympia, A Breath of Scandal serves as an elegant vehicle for a ravishing Sophia Loren. The star plays Princess Olympia, who despite her station in life cannot resist the urge to satisfy her sexual appetites. Exiled to the countryside, Olympia falls in love with American millionaire Charlie Foster (John Gavin). Meanwhile, a marriage of state is arranged between the princess and Prince Ruprecht of Prussia (Carlo Hintermann). Jealous rival Countess Lina (Angela Lansbury) endangers this union by threatening to tell all about Olympia and Foster. A cute, continental plot twist brings this harmless confection to a close. Maurice Chevalier dispenses his usual all-knowing glances and sly smiles as Olympia's understanding father. A Breath of Scandal was directed by Michael Curtiz, who uncharacteristically allows the pace to lag at crucial junctures.

Stifled by bizarre dreams and an unusual dread of going bald, Fred Dobbs (Ian McShane) -- an American expat playwright living in Rome -- seeks counsel from Dr. Fahrquardt (Severn Darden), an eccentric psychiatrist with issues of his own. Meanwhile, Fred and his wife, Millie (Anna Calder-Marshall), indulge in numerous affairs with sexy Italians who have their own dubious agendas. Rod Amateau directs this follow-up to 1965's What's New Pussycat?

A "countess" is warned of a plot by a group of villains to seize the oil reserves bubbling under the water supply of Paris. Locking the villains in her cellar, the countess holds a trial to judge the villains' crimes against the people of Paris.