Travels with My Aunt (film)
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| Directed by | George Cukor |
| Produced by | James Cresson Robert Fryer |
| Written by |
Jay Presson Allen Hugh Wheeler Based on the novel by Graham Greene |
| Starring |
Maggie Smith Alec McCowen |
| Music by | Tony Hatch |
| Cinematography | Douglas Slocombe |
| Edited by | John Bloom |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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109 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1 million (US/ Canada rentals) |
Travels with My Aunt is a 1972 American comedy film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Jay Presson Allen and Hugh Wheeler is based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Graham Greene.
While attending the cremation of his mother's remains, London bank manager Henry Pulling (Alec McCowen) meets eccentric Augusta Bertram (Maggie Smith), a flaming redhead who claims to be his aunt and announces that the woman who raised him was not his biological mother. She invites him back to her apartment, where her lover, an African fortune teller named Zachary Wordsworth (Louis Gossett Jr.), is waiting for her. Shortly after she receives a package allegedly containing the severed finger of her true love, Ercole Visconti (Robert Stephens), with a note promising the two will be reunited upon payment of $100,000 ($433,000 in 2013 dollars).
Augusta asks Henry to accompany her to Paris and he agrees, unaware she actually is smuggling £50,000 out of England and transporting it to Turkey for a gangster named Crowder (Robert Flemyng) in exchange for a £10,000 fee she can put toward the ransom. The two board the Orient Express, where Henry meets Tooley (Cindy Williams), a young American hippie who takes a liking to him and gets him to smoke "French cigarettes" (marijuana) with her. When the train reaches Milan, Augusta is greeted by her illegitimate son Mario (Raymond Gérôme), who presents her with a bouquet of flowers and an ear that supposedly belongs to Ercole.
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