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Hotel Paradiso (1966)

Hotel Paradiso (1966)

Comedy

Make room for a riot!!!

Release Date: 1966, March 1
Directors: Peter Glenville
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
Cast: Alec Guinness, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Leonard Rossiter, David Battley, Eddra Gale, Ann Beach, Marie Bell, Peggy Mount, Akim Tamiroff, Darío Moreno, Derek Fowlds

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

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