Hotel Paradiso

Belle Époque sex farce meets swinging Sixties comedy in this film adaptation of director Peter Glenville's stage smash. Alec Guinness recreates his stage role in this adaptation of a play by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres. Guinness plays henpecked bourgeois gentleman, Benedict Boniface, who dreams of a tryst with his lovely, Italian neighbor, Marcelle Cot (Gina Lollobrigida). When Marcelle takes umbrage with her husband (Robert Morley) overnight "work" trip, Benedict plies his troth and meets with success. An assignation is set for the original no-tell hotel, Hotel Paradiso, but it appears to be an appointment most of Paris has—and Marcelle's husband—has also made. And meanwhile, Feydeau (Peter Glenville) watches all.