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Hotel Paradiso (1966)
Directed by Peter Glenville
Overview
Monsieur Feydeau has writer’s block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris - Monsieur Boniface with a domineering wife, and the next-door neglectful husband Henri with a beautiful but ignored wife, Marcelle. Henri traces architectural anomalies (most ghost sounds are drains) and plans a night at the Hotel Paradiso, but this hotel is the assignation spot of Marcelle and Boniface. One wife, two husbands, a nephew, and the perky Boniface maid, all at this ‘by the hour’ hotel and consummation of the affair is, to say the least, severely compromised (not the least by a police raid). All of this is under Feydeau’s eye, and his play is the ‘success fou’ of the next season.
Rated NR | Length 98 minutes
Actors
Alec Guinness | Gina Lollobrigida | Robert Morley | Peggy Mount | Ann Beach | Douglas Byng | Derek Fowlds | David Battley | Peter Glenville | Akim Tamiroff | Eddra Gale | Robertson Hare | Leonard Rossiter | Darío Moreno | Marie Bell