试情记

故事描述百万富翁塞西尔福克斯为了测验三个前任情妇是否对他仍然忠贞，骗她们说自己行将逝世，于是三人分头赶往威尼斯福特家中，不料富翁果然被杀。恶作剧变成精心策划的谋杀案，剧情便转往谁是凶手的路上发展。笨侦探和误导线索带来了一些笑料，但更多的时候是连篇对白，使节奏显得拖滞，剧情发展也未免故弄玄虚，成绩较预期的低。Inspired by a performance of his favorite play, "Volpone," 20th-century millionaire Cecil Fox devises an intricate plan to trick three of his former mistresses into believing he is dying. Although the women are wealthy in their own right, all have good reason to covet his fortune. To assist him in his scheme, Fox hires William McFly, a gigolo and sometime actor, to act as his secretary/servant. Fox is soon visited at his "deathbed" by the three former mistresses: Merle McGill, a fading Hollywood sex symbol; Princess Dominique, who once took a cruise on Fox's yacht; and Lone Star Crockett, a Texas hypochondriac who travels with an enigmatic nurse/companion. As Fox and McFly act out the charade, things take an unexpected turn from comical farce to full-blown murder mystery.