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.
Alec Guinness
as Benedict Boniface
Gina Lollobrigida
as Marcelle Cotte
Robert Morley
as Henri Cotte
Peggy Mount
as Angelique Boniface
Ann Beach
as Victoire
Douglas Byng
as Martin
Derek Fowlds
as Maxime
David Battley
as George
Peter Glenville
as Georges Feydeau
Akim Tamiroff
as Hotel Proprietor
Eddra Gale
as Hotel Guest
Robertson Hare
as The Duke
