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A businessman (Richard Harris) has a younger girlfriend who loves him. He struggles to be able to perform in bed. He gets aroused however at the thought of his girlfriend being made love to by a handsome thief. The businessman becomes obsessed with tracking down the thief.

The film was based on a novel by Romain Gary which was optioned by producer Robert Lantos. His assistant Leila Basen wrote a draft of the script. She later recalled:

If the book was totally sexist, the first draft screenplay written by an American writer was even more misogynist... There never was a script contract. Robert continued to pay me my executive assistant salary of $350 a week. I sat in my usual desk in a room with the other four secretaries. But instead of writing lunch orders, I was writing what was to become the biggest-budget Canadian film of that time... In lieu of money, I got an IBM Selectric II, a free trip to Paris, where some of the film was shot, and tons of experience screenwriter-wise. I learned how to sit in silence in a read-through, even when your dialogue was being massacred. I learned what it means when a director says no one cares what you think because “you’re only the writer.” And I learned that when Richard Harris wanted a line change there was no point arguing with him because he was going to change it on set anyway.[2]

Harris' fee was $1 million. The film was shot in 1979 in Canada and Paris.[1] It was part financed by Carolco Pictures.

Harris recalled, "I saw the rough cut of the picture - it was 2 1/2 hours long... and it was magic. Sheer dynamite stuff. Well, the producers . . . they recut it, decided to take an hour out of it. It was a disaster."[3]

• Richard Harris as Jason Ogilvy
• Jennifer Dale as Laura
• George Peppard as Jim Daley
• Jeanne Moreau as Lili Marlene
• Winston Rekert as Antonio Montoya
• Alexandra Stewart as Clara
• Jan Rubes as Psychiatrist

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