In the days leading up to the D-Day invasion, Lieutenant Commander Charles Edward Madison (James Garner) has to admit that he's having a pretty good war. He's the personal aide to Admiral William Jessup (Melvyn Douglas) and Charles is, if anything, making sure the Admiral gets whatever he wants. Liquor, good food, and girls are Charles' specialty, and for Emily Barham (Dame Julie Andrews), a driver who's been assigned to him, he's everything that she dislikes about Americans. Too loud, too rich, and too wasteful. For his part, Charles, a self-proclaimed coward, just wants to stay out of action. When Admiral Jessup suffers a nervous breakdown however, Charles finds himself on a zany assignment to film the arrival in Normandy of combat engineers. Meanwhile, Charlie and Emily have very much fallen in love.
—garykmcd