[2][3] The film is directed by Robert Stevens and starring Peter Finch, Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury, Arthur Hill, and Constance Cummings; with Nigel Davenport, and John Le Mesurier.

She meets an English friend of Sam's, a writer and publishing-company executive, Murray Logan, who shares her great interest in Greece.

Logan also is unhappily married because his vicious and shallow wife, Sybil, blames him for an automobile accident that scarred her and killed their son.

Christine falls ill from the stress and exertion and, according to Sam, refuses to fight for her life; she eventually contracts pneumonia.

Meade Roberts, who had written a TV adaptation of Wings of the Dove for Houseman, was working on the script by January 1961.

[9] In February 1962, Houseman said the film was in planning stages and described the project as "essentially it is a romantic drama dealing with marital problems, the settings of which are New York, Connecticut, London and Greece.

[3] The production schedule was hampered by the fact Jane Fonda was required back in New York at a certain date to begin rehearsals for a play.