Travels with My Aunt (1972 George Cukor)

Novel Graham Greene, screenplay Jay Presson Allen (she has good credits) & Hugh Wheeler. Dull young man gets caught up in international affairs of melodramatic and newly-discovered aunt, to invigorating effect (e.g. pot-smoking!)

Maggie Smith, Alec McGowen (good), Lou Gosset, Robert Stephens (unrecognisable), Cindy Williams.

Editor: John Bloom.
Gorgeously shot by Douglas Slocombe, shining the Metrocolor reds, with that distinct softness I always loved, and in Panavision.

Maggie Smith (made up by Jose Antonio Sanchez) and Alec McGowan

Venice through the lens of Douglas Slocombe

Great locations e.g. Covent Garden (did they bump into Hitchcock's crew shooting Frenzy?), Le Train Bleu, George V, Orient Express etc.

DVD release was well overdue. Enormously enjoyable in old-fashioned style; lush production.