This is really quite an entertaining game of catch-as-catch-can with the fastidious conductor "Victor" (Yul Brynner) managing to irritate just about everyone including his long suffering wife "Dolly' (Kay Kendall). When she discovers that he is paying special interest to a young pianist, she decides it's time to teach him a lesson and so tells him she wants a divorce. He's not used to listening to anything she says at the best of times, but when she declares that she already has a suitor lined up to take his place, and then his career starts to wobble a bit, he realises that he must get his act...