Hotel (1967 film)
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| Directed by | Richard Quine |
| Produced by | Wendell Mayes |
| Screenplay by | Wendell Mayes |
| Based on |
Hotel by Arthur Hailey |
| Starring |
Rod Taylor Catherine Spaak Karl Malden Kevin McCarthy Michael Rennie Melvyn Douglas |
| Music by | Johnny Keating |
| Cinematography | Charles Lang |
| Edited by | Sam O'Steen |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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124 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3,651,000 |
| Box office | $3,000,000 (US/ Canada) |
Hotel is a 1967 Technicolor film adaptation of the novel of the same name written by Arthur Hailey. The film stars Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Karl Malden, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Rennie, Merle Oberon, and Melvyn Douglas. It is directed by Richard Quine.
The story takes place at the fictional St Gregory Hotel in New Orleans, owned by Warren Trent (Melvyn Douglas).
The hotel is in financial trouble. Hotel manager Peter McDermott (Rod Taylor) involves himself in the overtures of two different buyers. He also takes a romantic interest in Jeanne Rochefort (Catherine Spaak), an upper-class French guest, and deals with a wide range of routine problems, including a faulty elevator.
Jeanne is the traveling companion of one of the buyers, Curtis O'Keefe (Kevin McCarthy). He intends to renovate and "modernize" the hotel, with conveyor belts carrying luggage automatically around the building as if it were some sort of modern airport terminal, and even presenting the customer's bill on a conveyor belt. That was O'Keefe's vision for a hotel of the future, but his immediate plans for the St.Gregory were different: He would remove the fountain in the center of the lobby and replace it with a circular news stand and bookstore; he would remove the comfortable lobby seating, forcing guests to go to a restaurant or lounge and spend money to sit; he would change the mezzanine promenade with rows of little shops; and he would convert the great suites into smaller guest rooms.
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