Hotel Paradiso (film)

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.[1]

Hotel Paradiso
Theatrical release poster by Frank Frazetta
Directed byPeter Glenville
Written byJean-Claude Carrière
Peter Glenville
Based onL'Hôtel du libre échange
1894 play
by Georges Feydeau
Maurice Desvallières
Produced byPeter Glenville, Pierre Jourdan
StarringAlec Guinness
Gina Lollobrigida
Robert Morley
CinematographyHenri Decaë
Edited byAnne V. Coates
Music byLaurence Rosenthal
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
14 October 1966 (NYC)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Playwright Monsieur Feydeau is staying in the Parisian Hotel Paradiso. He needs to write a new play, but has writer's block. He takes the opportunity to observe his fellow guests: Monsieur Boniface, henpecked by his domineering wife, and Marcelle, the beautiful but neglected wife of Henri, a building inspector. Henri is sent to the hotel to investigate rumours of ghosts (which turn out to be caused by drains). However, the hotel is the trysting place of Marcelle and Boniface, who are having an affair.

In the 'by-the-hour' hotel, there are two husbands and one wife, plus Henri's nephew and Boniface's maid, who are also having an affair. Marcelle and Boniface's affair is severely compromised (not least by a police raid). All these events provide Feydeau with the material for his play, which becomes the succès fou of the next season.

Cast

References
  1. Winter Garden Theatre Programme, printed by Henry Good & Son London (02/05/1956)


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