Hotel (1967 film)

Hotel is a 1967 Technicolor film adaptation of the novel of the same name written by Arthur Hailey. The film stars Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Karl Malden, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Rennie, and Melvyn Douglas. It is directed by Richard Quine.

The hotel is in financial trouble. Hotel manager Peter McDermott Rod Taylor involves himself in the overtures of two different buyers. He also takes a romantic interest in Jeanne Rochefort Catherine Spaak, an upperclass French guest, and deals with a wide range of routine problems, including a faulty elevator.Jeanne is the traveling companion of one of the buyers, Curtis OKeefe Kevin McCarthy. He intends to renovate and modernize the hotel, with conveyor belts carrying luggage automatically around the building like it were some sort of modern airport terminal, and even presenting the customers bill on a conveyor belt. That was OKeefes vision for a hotel of the future, but his immediate plans for the St.Gregory were different He would remove the fountain in the center of the lobby and replace it with a circular news stand and bookstore he would remove the comfortable lobby seating, forcing guests to go to a restaurant or lounge and spend money to sit he would change the mezzanine promenade with rows of little shops and he would convert the great suites into smaller guest rooms. ........

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