Hotel Paradiso
01/03/1966
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.
Movie Information
Alec Guinness
as Benedict Boniface
Gina Lollobrigida
as Marcelle Cotte
Robert Morley
as Henri Cotte
Peggy Mount
as Angelique Boniface
Ann Beach
as Victoire
Douglas Byng
as Martin
Derek Fowlds
as Maxime
David Battley
as George
Peter Glenville
as Georges Feydeau
Akim Tamiroff
as Hotel Proprietor
Eddra Gale
as Hotel Guest
Robertson Hare
as The Duke
Leonard Rossiter
as Inspector
Darío Moreno
as The Turk
Marie Bell
as La Grande Antoinette
