A Novel Affair

Original title: The Passionate Stranger

1957
1h 37m

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A chauffeur gets the wrong idea after he reads his lady boss's erotic novel.A chauffeur gets the wrong idea after he reads his lady boss's erotic novel.A chauffeur gets the wrong idea after he reads his lady boss's erotic novel.

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6.2/10

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Trivia
Italian actor Carlo Giustini couldn't master the technique of matching his voice to his on-screen lip movements for re-recording his dialogue. Robert Rietty was brought in to post synch it.

Goofs
When Judith wakes up and suspects Carlo has killed her husband as in the novel she is wearing her night clothes and a gown. When she rushes to the river she is wearing expensive day clothes and high heel shoes.

Quotes
Judith Wynter: Darling, I have to ask you to tell Mario to leave. This afternoon in the Summerhouse, he was professing his love for me.
Roger Wynter: [gleefully] Oh, high spirits perhaps.
Judith Wynter: It was awful, Mrs Poldy saw us, she was very upset.
Roger Wynter: Why, is he in love with her too ?

Soundtracks
Nocturne No.13 in C Minor
(uncredited)
Music by Frédéric Chopin

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4/10

total waste of talent

This film is really hard going,particularly the fantasy sequence.The only noticeable feature being the number of dress changes by Margaret Leighton.I watched the trailer after the film on the DVD only to be very surprised to see that the film was sold as a powerful drama,relying only on the colour sequences,without mentioning that they were a fantasy.In fact it has to be said that the black and white bookends are far better than the interminable colour sequence.