Hotel Paradiso
1966, Film, 98 min, Comedy, English, United Kingdom, MoviePedia score 63
Make room for a riot!!!
Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block and he needs a new play, so he takes an opportunity to observe his upper class neighbors of 1900 Paris. There is Monsieur Boniface with hard domineering wife Angelique; also, Monsieur Cotte with beautiful but neglected wife Marcelle. Henri Cotte traces architectural anomalies (mostly "ghost" sounds in the drain pipes) and plans a night at the Hotel Paradiso, which happens to be the chosen romantic rendezvous spot of Marcelle and Monsieur 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.
Directed by Peter Glenville
Cast
- Gina Lollobrigida as Marcelle Cot
- Alec Guinness as Benedict Boniface
- Robert Morley as Henri Cot
- Peggy Mount as Angelique Boniface
- Duggie Byng as M. Martin
- Robertson Hare as Duke
- David Battley as George
- Ann Beach as Victoire
- Eddra Gale as Hotel Guest
- Darío Moreno as The Turk
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