The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) on Netflix
Approved19642h 2mComedyDramaRomance
A yellow Rolls-Royce passes through three owners. Lord Charles buys it for his wife Eloise; gangster Paolo Maltese acquires it in Genoa; and in 1941 widow Gerda Millett buys it in Trieste.
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Charles, Marquess of Frinton, an Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, buys a yellow 1930 Rolls-Royce Phantom II as a belated tenth-anniversary present for his French wife, Eloise. He races horses too, and wants above all to win the Ascot Gold Cup; his entry, 10th June, is named for the wedding anniversary and is the favorite. The same car turns up for sale in Genoa, where Paolo Maltese, an American gangster touring Italy, buys it; Mae Jenkins, his fiancée, and Joey Friedlander, his right-hand man, accompany him. In 1941 it sits in a Trieste repair shop, marked down as a bargain, until Gerda Millett, a wealthy American widow on her way to meet the new Yugoslavian king, buys it. Davich, an anti-royalist, commandeers the automobile to cross the border.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
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- The Yellow Rolls-Royce drew on an idea from In Those Days, a German drama from 1947 by Helmut Käutner that first showed in the US in March 1951.
