Hotel Paradiso (film)
Hotel Paradiso is a Metrocolor 1966 film released by MetroGoldwynMayer in Panavision. It was directed by Peter Glenville and based on the play LHtel du libre change by Maurice Desvallires and Georges Feydeau. The film allowed Alec Guinness to reprise the role he had played in the London, West End theatre production of Hotel Paradiso, which opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane, London. onMay 1956. Guinness played alongside Martita Hunt Angelique, Irene Worth Marcelle, Frank Pettingell Cot, Kenneth Williams Maxime and Billie Whitelaw Victoire. Douglas Byng also reprised his part from the stage play.
In the bythehour hotel, there are two husbands and one wife, plus Henris nephew and Bonifaces maid, who are also having an affair. Marcelle and Bonifaces affair is, to say the least, severely compromised not least by a police raid. All these events provide Feydeau with the material for his play, which becomes the succs fou of the next season.
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