Hotel Paradiso

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.

Cast

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

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