The funny comedy was remade in 1984, also unsuccessfully, with Dudley Moore in the lead role.Plot SynopsisThe splendid, fine farce was the tale of British, middle-aged, reknowned symphony orchestra conductor Sir Alfred de Carter (Rex Harrison) who suspected his lovely younger wife Daphne (Linda Darnell) of infidelity.The thought-provoking film was best known for being the final, haunting, fully-completed film for wo major screen legends: 59 year old Clark Gable (once "The King of Hollywood") and 35 year old Marilyn Monroe.[Cobalt had set the bomb to cover his racks.] Suffering from a mild concussion, Hunt awoke handcuffed o a hospital stretcher, and learned that the official explanation for the bombing was a gasline explosion underneath Kremlin Square (although it was speculated that the bombing a "targeted attack" and "undeclared act of aggression").]As he considers his options, knowing that he can""t return to his apartment where the "bloodhounds" will find him, he hears a woman wearing dark glasses behind a slatted shade call out: "You there! Why are you so late? Why have you kept me waiting so long?" He is summoned "in here" and waved/escorted into the gothic house by a bald-headed, properly-attired, white-gloved, German manservant/butler Max von Mayerling (Erich von Stroheim) at the metal-gated front-door.[Note: He is determinedly rying to find the location of the precious jewels stashed in the house during secretive, nightly searches of the third-floor attic where he ransacks her aunt""s stored possessions.