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