Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris - Monsieur Boniface with a domineering wife, and the next-door neglectful husband Henri with a beautiful but ignored wife, Marcelle. Henri traces architectural anomalies (most ghost sounds are drains) and plans a night at the Hotel Paradiso, but this hotel is the assignation spot of Marcelle and 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.
Writing | Jean-Claude Carrière | Writer |
Writing | Georges Feydeau | Writer |
Directing | Peter Glenville | Director |
Writing | Peter Glenville | Writer |
Writing | Maurice Desvallières | Writer |
Editing | Anne V. Coates | Editor |
Production | Peter Glenville | Producer |
Sound | Laurence Rosenthal | Original Music Composer |
Art | François de Lamothe | Production Design |
Art | Robert Christidès | Set Decoration |
Production | Irene Howard | Casting |
Camera | Henri Decaë | Director of Photography |
Costume & Make-Up | Odette Berroyer | Makeup Artist |
Costume & Make-Up | Louis Bonnemaison | Makeup Artist |