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.
Sophia Loren
as Epifania Parerga
Peter Sellers
as Dr. Kabir
Vittorio De Sica
as Joe
Alastair Sim
as Sagamore
Dennis Price
as Adrian
Gary Raymond
as Alastair
Miriam Karlin
as Mrs. Joe
Noel Purcell
as Professor Merton
Virginia Vernon
as Polly Smith
Eleanor Summerfield
as Mrs. Willoughby
Pauline Jameson
as Muriel Pilkington
Alfie Bass
as Fish Curer