Sophia Loren - at the height of her beauty and sexiness - plays the world's richest woman and prances around scantily clad for half the movie. She throws herself at Peter Sellers' doctor, and somehow this guy is completely resistant to her charms.
There is not a creature in the animal kingdom that would be able to resist her for two seconds.
believe it or not...
there are. :-)
if you've never read about or seen some of the examples of "spiritual devotion" people in a land so far removed (not just in topography, but in time) from our own more materialistic/comfortable culture are capable of, then you can't believe that any man could.
i understand what his character's about, though; and, to sellers' credit, he's always 'played indian' very well. it's also important to remember that, ultimately, he does cave in to her. it just takes it a little longer than it would for, say, your average randy westerner. :-)
(also, in case you didn't know the 'backstory,' sellers himself fell in love with loren - as all her leading men did - even confessing it to his wife at the time...while loren was soon to become carlo ponti's wife). so, obviously it didn't take sellers, the man, more than "two seconds"...
gregory 060508
Even more ridiculous is Gary Raymond, who plays the guy who cheats on her!
Sam Tomaino