Comedy
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.
Directed by
Peter Glenville
Written by
Peter Glenville, Maurice Desvallières, Georges Feydeau, Jean-Claude Carrière
Gina Lollobrigida
Marcelle Cotte
Alec Guinness
Benedict Boniface
Darío Moreno
The Turk
Leonard Rossiter
Inspector
David Battley
George
Robert Morley
Henri Cotte
Akim Tamiroff
Hotel Proprietor
Derek Fowlds
Maxime
Ann Beach
Victoire
Eddra Gale
Hotel Guest
Robertson Hare
The Duke
Marie Bell
La Grande Antoinette
Peggy Mount
Angelique Boniface
Douglas Byng
Martin

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