Travels with My Aunt (film)

Travels with My Aunt
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGeorge Cukor
Written by
Based onTravels with My Aunt
1969 novel
by Graham Greene
Produced by
  • James Cresson
  • Robert Fryer
Starring
CinematographyDouglas Slocombe
Edited byJohn Bloom
Music byTony Hatch
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • December 17, 1972 (1972-12-17)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3.2 million[1]
Box office$1,075,000 (US/Canada theatrical rentals) [2]

Travels with My Aunt is a 1972 American comedy film directed by George Cukor, written by Jay Presson Allen and Hugh Wheeler, and starring Maggie Smith. The film is loosely based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Graham Greene. The film's plot retains the book's central theme of the adventurous, amoral aunt and her respectable middle class nephew drawn in to share her life, and also features her various past and present lovers who were introduced in the book, while providing this cast of characters with different adventures to the ones thought up by Greene, in different locales (North Africa rather than the book's South America). It was released on December 17, 1972.

  1. ^ "AFI|Catalog".
  2. ^ "Big Rental Films of 1973", Variety, January 9, 1974, p. 60