
Plot
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.
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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