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Hotel Paradiso

1966 · 1h 38m · Comedy · United Kingdom

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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.

Directed by
Peter Glenville
Written by
Peter Glenville, Jean-Claude Carrière, Maurice Desvallières, Georges Feydeau
Starring
Alec Guinness, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peggy Mount
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adulterybelle epoqueextramarital affairhotel farcelove hotelparis, francewriterwriter's block

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