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Waltz of the Toreadors

Name: Waltz of the Toreadors
Released: 1962
Duration: 1 h 45 min

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1962
1 hr 45 mins
Comedy, Drama

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This is the end of a glorious military career: General Leo Fitzjohn retires to his Sussex manor where he will write his memoirs. Unfortunately, his private life is a disaster: a confirmed womanizer, Leo has infuriated his wife Emily, now a shrewish and hypochondriac woman, all the more bitter as she still loves him. The General has two plain-looking daughters he dislikes and an attractive French mistress, Ghislaine, with whom he has had a platonic affair for seventeen years. When Ghislaine resurfaces, determined to complete her love with him and to get rid of Emily, Leo is at a loss what to do...

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Peter Sellers

General Leo Fitzjohn

Dany Robin

Ghislaine

Margaret Leighton

Emily Fitzjohn

Awards

1962 - Prize San Sebastián - Best Actor - winner
1963 - BAFTA Film Award - Best British Screenplay - nominated

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