Hotel Paradiso (1966)

Hotel Paradiso (1966)

Make room for a riot!!! 1966-03-01 United Kingdom 98 Min. PG-13
5.5 11 votes

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.

Cast

Alec Guinness is Benedict Boniface
Benedict Boniface
Gina Lollobrigida is Marcelle Cotte
Marcelle Cotte
Robert Morley is Henri Cotte
Henri Cotte
Peggy Mount is Angelique Boniface
Angelique Boniface
Ann Beach is Victoire
Victoire
Douglas Byng is Martin
Derek Fowlds is Maxime
Peter Glenville is Georges Feydeau
Georges Feydeau
Akim Tamiroff is Hotel Proprietor
Hotel Proprietor
Eddra Gale is Hotel Guest
Hotel Guest
Robertson Hare is The Duke