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Release Date:
March 1, 1966
Original Title:
Hotel Paradiso
Alternate Titles:
Paradiso, hôtel du libre-échange
Genres:
Comedy
Production Companies:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
Production Countries:
United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 98
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.
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Casting:
Irene Howard
Director:
Peter Glenville
Director of Photography:
Henri Decaë
Editor:
Anne V. Coates
Makeup Artist:
Louis Bonnemaison
Odette Berroyer
Original Music Composer:
Laurence Rosenthal
Producer:
Peter Glenville
Production Design:
François de Lamothe
Set Decoration:
Robert Christidès
Writer:
Peter Glenville
Jean-Claude Carrière
Maurice Desvallières
Georges Feydeau
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