Movie  1963
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Frances Andros: You so much want looking after. And I so much want to look after you.
Marc Champselle: You? Why should you be scared of him?
Frances Andros: As a child I was scared of the dark.
Frances Andros: That is what I love you for. That I can make fun of you.
Paul Andros: Pay no attention. Drunks cry very easily. It's only the whiskey.
Frances Andros: I know it is foolishly sentimental to want to sit next to the man that you are eloping with.
Marc Champselle: "No" is not a word that I recognise.
Frances Andros: You've recognised it for the past three months.
Frances Andros: For most of those thirteen years I've loved him. But I don't know him.
The Duchess of Brighton: [waiting for the plane to take off] I have two enormous pills to steady me down and the two pep-pills I took this morning - the pep-up pills. I'm flying already!
Frances Andros: I love you for what you are. Not what you think you are.
Max Buda: [they are playing cards, watched by a reporter] Not that one. *That* one!
Gloria Gritti: How do you know what is in my hand?
Max Buda: Because I know what is in your head.
Gloria Gritti: So, I have nothing in my head.
Max Buda: [to the reporter] Don't quote that.
Description
For elite passengers awaiting London-to-U.S. flights, takeoff can't occur soon enough. But then fog rolls in, grounding air traffic. Over the next fateful night, the jet-setters must face problems and not flee them.First-class stars book passage for romantic melodrama mixed with wry comic flourishes in The V.I.P.s Frances (Elizabeth Taylor) is runing from her neglectful tycoon husband (Richard Burton) into the arms of the suave Marc (Louis Jourdan). Filmmaker Max (Orson Welles) is dodging the taxman. Harried entrepreneur Les (Rod Taylor) is blind to the romantic devotion of his secretary (Maggie Smith). And a dotty dutchess (Margaret Rutherfor won an Oscar, Golden Globe and National Board of Review awards for ther delightful performance) is determined to save her ancestral manor.