Hotel Paradiso

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.

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  Alec Guinness

  Benedict Boniface
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  Gina Lollobrigida

  Marcelle Cotte
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  Robert Morley

  Henri Cotte
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  Peggy Mount

  Angelique Boniface
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  Ann Beach

  Victoire
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  Douglas Byng

  Martin
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  Derek Fowlds

  Maxime
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  David Battley

  George
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  Peter Glenville

  Georges Feydeau
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  Akim Tamiroff

  Hotel Proprietor