This is an attractive vaudeville in which playwright Monsieur Feydeau (director Peter Glenville himself) has writer's block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris , such as timid Monsieur Boniface (Alec Guinness) living with a domineering wife, and attempting to carry on affair with Italian sexpot Marcelle (Gina Lollobrigida) , while silly , innocent husband Henry (Robert Morley) is in charge of other issues . Henri traces architectural anomalies , most ghost sounds are drains, and schemes a night at the Hotel Paradiso, but this hotel is the assignation spot of Marcelle and Boniface to practice their loving appointment , all at this "by the hour" hotel, and consummation of the affair is severely marred by a police raid commanded by a stiff-upper-lip Police Inspector (Leonard Rossiter) .The "inn" comedy of the year !. Georges Feydeau and his play is the "success fou" of the next season !. Make room for a riot!!!
Skittish cinema version of Feydeau's farce , based on the play "L'Hôtel du Libre Echange" by Maurice Desvallières and Georges Feydeau , stars Alec Guinness trying a love affaire with the next-door gorgeous skipping through the kind of role he was already performing with practised ease and rather better dialogue in the early fifties. Its origin is the stage adptation by director Peter Glenville himself , it fact ¨Feydeau's Hotel Paradiso¨ was one of his most long running commercial productions which ran on Broadway and in London starring Alec Guinness, Douglas Byng and Martita Hunt and in Broadway Byng's role was taken by Bert Lahr. It is an amusing and disconcerting mess among one wife, two husbands, a nephew, and a perky maid along with her lover , and all of them seen under Feydeau's eye. The funny scenes take a while to get going , but when it does , the ins and cuts of the different roles through hotel bedrooms are fun enough . Guinnes fans won't be disappointed , although isn't a top-rate production , but he's better in other comedy films as The captain's paradise , Man in the white suit , Horse's mouth, Lavender Hill Mob , or Ladykillers . Being finely accompanied by a sympathetic Gina Lollobrigida as the beautiful, but ignored wife , Robert Morley as her neglectful hubby , Peggy Mount , Dario Moreno , Robertson Hare , David Battley and watch out for scene-stealing Akim Tamiroff as a hotel manager and Leonard Rossiter as a police inspector.
The motion picture was professionally directed by Peter Glenville, though is has some flaws , gaps and being extremely theatrical. Peter was a talented actor , distinguished stage director, and filmmaker. In 1949 he took Rattigan's The Browning Version to Broadway and later went on to direct the writer's Separate Tables, which starred Eric Portman and Margaret Leighton. Later stage productions included The Prisoner with Alec Guinness and Romeo and Juliet with Olivia de Havilland. Peter directed some nice and successful films such as : The Comedians , Summer and smoke Me and the colonel , The prisoner and his big hit was the hitorial picture : Becket with Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole. Rating Hotel Paradiso (1966) : 5.5/10 . Acceptable and passable. The flick will appeal to Alec Guinness and Gina Lollobrigida fans.
Skittish cinema version of Feydeau's farce , based on the play "L'Hôtel du Libre Echange" by Maurice Desvallières and Georges Feydeau , stars Alec Guinness trying a love affaire with the next-door gorgeous skipping through the kind of role he was already performing with practised ease and rather better dialogue in the early fifties. Its origin is the stage adptation by director Peter Glenville himself , it fact ¨Feydeau's Hotel Paradiso¨ was one of his most long running commercial productions which ran on Broadway and in London starring Alec Guinness, Douglas Byng and Martita Hunt and in Broadway Byng's role was taken by Bert Lahr. It is an amusing and disconcerting mess among one wife, two husbands, a nephew, and a perky maid along with her lover , and all of them seen under Feydeau's eye. The funny scenes take a while to get going , but when it does , the ins and cuts of the different roles through hotel bedrooms are fun enough . Guinnes fans won't be disappointed , although isn't a top-rate production , but he's better in other comedy films as The captain's paradise , Man in the white suit , Horse's mouth, Lavender Hill Mob , or Ladykillers . Being finely accompanied by a sympathetic Gina Lollobrigida as the beautiful, but ignored wife , Robert Morley as her neglectful hubby , Peggy Mount , Dario Moreno , Robertson Hare , David Battley and watch out for scene-stealing Akim Tamiroff as a hotel manager and Leonard Rossiter as a police inspector.
The motion picture was professionally directed by Peter Glenville, though is has some flaws , gaps and being extremely theatrical. Peter was a talented actor , distinguished stage director, and filmmaker. In 1949 he took Rattigan's The Browning Version to Broadway and later went on to direct the writer's Separate Tables, which starred Eric Portman and Margaret Leighton. Later stage productions included The Prisoner with Alec Guinness and Romeo and Juliet with Olivia de Havilland. Peter directed some nice and successful films such as : The Comedians , Summer and smoke Me and the colonel , The prisoner and his big hit was the hitorial picture : Becket with Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole. Rating Hotel Paradiso (1966) : 5.5/10 . Acceptable and passable. The flick will appeal to Alec Guinness and Gina Lollobrigida fans.