It stars Sophia Loren, Maurice Chevalier, and John Gavin, with Angela Lansbury, Milly Vitale, Roberto Risso, Isabel Jeans and Tullio Carminati.

[1] In 1907, the widowed Princess Olympia of the Austro-Hungarian Empire has been banished from the imperial court to her late husband's country estate.

The bored princess spends her time improving her rifle marksmanship by using flowers, statues and the postman as her targets.

Waking in Charlie's pajama top, but not the bottom, Olympia fears the worst has happened and flees home, where news has arrived that she is able to return to the imperial court in Vienna and is to be married to Prince Ruprecht of Prussia.

Thousands of dollars worth of costumes, buckets of pseudo-Habsburg jewels, indoor and outdoor settings at some of Vienna's most regal palaces and a cast headed up by Sophia Loren, John Gavin and Maurice Chevalier are tossed away on a skinny fable.