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Mark Wallace, an English architect, drives from London to Saint-Tropez with his wife Joanna to meet Maurice Dalbret, a client waiting to see the house Mark designed for him. Their route retraces four earlier journeys the couple took together, and memories of those trips recur along the way. They met on a ferry, Joanna traveling with her choir and Mark studying European architecture, and they stayed in cheap hotels by the Mediterranean. There was a later trip with the Maxwell-Manchesters and their demanding daughter Ruthie, and a summer when their car caught fire and the Dalbrets stopped to help. Joanna complains that Mark is always at Maurice's call, and Mark answers that she enjoys what his work provides.
Cast
- Gabrielle Middletonas Ruth Manchester
- Irène Hildaas Yvonne de Florac
- Dominique Joosas Sylvia
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- Clarissa Hillelas Joanna's Touring Friend
- Kathy Chelimskyas Caroline Wallace
- Jean-François Laleyas Boat Officer (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Two for the Road (1967)
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- As a nine-year-old Audrey Hepburn had tangled her feet in weeds in a pond and nearly drowned, and remained terrified of water her whole life; Stanley Donen coaxed her for three days and denied her request for a body double before she did the scene, with two assistants waiting to pull her out.
- Critic Bosley Crowther and director Stanley Donen had clashed at a pre-screening press conference days before his review: after Crowther called the film "commercial American trash", Donen dressed him down publicly, saying "you are nothing but an impossible son of a bitch".
- By post-production Jacqueline Bisset had left for the United States to make The Detective, so Stanley Donen hired another actress to read her parts and matched her as closely as he could; Bisset's voice in the film is not her own.
- The villa in L'Oumède, Ramatuelle used for the Dalbret scenes became the principal location of La Piscine in the summer of 1968, and the shot of Romy Schneider standing over Alain Delon on the pool deck may have been borrowed from the one where Finney stands over Hepburn.
- The leading man role was first offered to Paul Newman, who declined on the grounds that it was a "director's picture" unsuited to a major star; after his rejection Universal dropped the project.
