Turner Classic Movies got my hopes up just now, by airing a little puff promotional documentary about the making of “The Yellow Rolls-Royce.” Often, when these little short subjects turn up, it’s to promote an upcoming airing of the movie in question, but I can’t find any scheduled airings on my DVR schedule or IMDb.

I’ve only seen this once, and I’ve wanted to see it again. It’s not the greatest movie ever made, it won’t change your life or give you many happy years of repeat viewings, but it’s an interesting and well-made oddity, and if you’re a classic movie or TV fan you have to see it at least once.

It’s an anthology of sorts, with three different stories told in sequence. The only connection between the stories is the title car, as it is passed on from owner to owner. The stories range from marital infidelity to freedom-fighter heroics.

The reason to see the movie is the cast. In order to tell these three very different stories, they needed a broad range of personalities: Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, George C. Scott, Jeanne Moreau, Shirley MacLaine, Omar Sharif, Art Carney and Wally Cox, among others. (Art Carney is no relation, by the way, although when I was very young, my father had “Art” on his bowling team shirt as a joke.)