Director Mark Robson and scriptwriter Ernest Lehman (both of From the Terrace) transformed the relatively serious Irving Wallace novel into a glossy blend of comedy, suspense, melodrama, romance, sex and international intrigue
The complicated story concerns a group of Nobel Prize winners gathered in Stockholm for the ceremonies Newman is the winner in Literature, although he's written only cheap detective thrillers (under pseudonyms) for the past five years Another hard-drinking womanizer, he has plenty of booze, and a beautiful Swedish official (Elke Sommer) assigned to him But he's distracted from these long enough to suspect that the Physics prizewinner (Edward G. Robinson) has been kidnapped by the Communists and replaced by a double Naturally, nobody believes him
The complicated story concerns a group of Nobel Prize winners gathered in Stockholm for the ceremonies Newman is the winner in Literature, although he's written only cheap detective thrillers (under pseudonyms) for the past five years Another hard-drinking womanizer, he has plenty of booze, and a beautiful Swedish official (Elke Sommer) assigned to him But he's distracted from these long enough to suspect that the Physics prizewinner (Edward G. Robinson) has been kidnapped by the Communists and replaced by a double Naturally, nobody believes him