Hotel Paradiso (1966)
1h 38m
Running Time
March 1, 1966Release Date
Plot.
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.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Gina Lollobrigida
Marcelle Cot
Alec Guinness
Benedict Boniface
Robert Morley
Henri Cot
Ann Beach
Victoire
Peggy Mount
Angelique Boniface
Douglas Byng
Martin
Peter Glenville
Director
Derek Fowlds
Maxime
Georges Feydeau
Writer
David Battley
George
Maurice Desvallières
Writer
Jean-Claude Carrière
Writer
Laurence Rosenthal
Composer
Akim Tamiroff
Hotel Proprietor
Henri Decaë
Cinematographer
Eddra Gale
Hotel Guest
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 1, 1966
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 38m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsParis, France
Genres
Wiki.
Hotel Paradiso is a 1966 British comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Panavision. It was directed by Peter Glenville and based on the play L'Hôtel du libre échange by Maurice Desvallières and Georges Feydeau. The film allowed Alec Guinness to reprise the role he had played in the London West End theatre production of Hotel Paradiso, which opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane, London. on 2 May 1956. Guinness played alongside Martita Hunt (Angelique), Irene Worth (Marcelle), Frank Pettingell (Cot), Kenneth Williams (Maxime) and Billie Whitelaw (Victoire). Douglas Byng also reprised his part from the stage play.