Rita Cavill

Max Foster (Carl Betz), an American newspaper reporter, is in Hong Kong to assist a defecting Russian diplomat. In return for arranging an escape, the diplomat must turn over to Foster a diary revealing the true events taking place in China. While making his escape, the defector is killed ant the diary vanishes. The reporter sets off on a search for it, from Hong Kong to Australia. The chase ends in an action-filled climax, with the journalist finally meeting up with "That Lady from Peking" (Nancy Kwan) - the diplomat's daughter.

The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.

都会のシドニーから何もない田舎町へ単身赴任でやってきた小学校教師のジョン・グラントは、クリスマス休暇で恋人に会うためシドニーに帰る途中、とある町に一泊することになる。町の住民たちのもてなしでビールを浴びるように飲んだジョンは、狂乱のギャンブルやカンガルー狩りの興奮にも魅了され、そのまま町に1週間滞在することになるが……。