It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

A witty, whimsical western which uses Eastwood's tongue-in-cheek posturing to good effect, as he chivalrously attempts to protect the dubious honour of Sister Sara (Maclaine) who is in fact a whore masquerading as a nun. Pistol-packin' cowboys, Mexican revolutionaries and drunken bandits abound. find out more...