Bernard is so happy with his life in Paris that he intends to turn down an imminent promotion that would require him to move to New York City.

Robert Reed, a fellow journalist and an old acquaintance, complicates Bernard's life even further when he arrives in town and is unable to find a hotel room.

The director saw the play in London and "realized at once that it was a giant European hit because its driving issue was satirically poking fun at American sexual proclivities in the jet age.

Rich liked Curtis but would have preferred Jack Lemmon or Dick Van Dyke instead of Lewis, who he felt would fall "back on familiary schtick rather than aiming for honesty.

[6] As Curtis and Lewis both wanted top billing, their names at the beginning of the film spin around in a circle with an airplane nacelle behind them.

Writing in The New York Times, critic Howard Thompson called the film a "strictly one-gag frolic" and "just middling, passable nonsense.