George Baker

Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl.

On holiday in London with his little daughter Stephanie, the widower, the American black surgeon Mat Younger, meets the young Katherine Mosovandou, granddaughter of the ambassador of an African state. Falling in love with her, who reciprocates his feelings, Mat discovers that the girl is suffering from a terrible anemia, which will leave her, at best, a few years of life ...

In March 1914, a mining engineer tries to prevent Prussian agents from executing a political assassination designed to trigger World War I.