Released:
1966-03-01

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.

Director:
Peter Glenville

Runtime:
1h 38min

Genre:
Comedy

• Cast:
• 
  Alec Guinness
  as
  Benedict Boniface
• 
  Gina Lollobrigida
  as
  Marcelle Cotte
• 
  Robert Morley
  as
  Henri Cotte
• 
  Peggy Mount
  as
  Angelique Boniface
• 
  Ann Beach
  as
  Victoire