When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.

• Dimitri De Grunwald Production
• Sophia Loren
• Peter Sellers
• Vittorio De Sica
• Alastair Sim
• Dennis Price
• Gary Raymond
• Miriam Karlin
• Noel Purcell