Hotel

Hotel is a 1967 Technicolor film adaptation of the novel Hotel written by Arthur Hailey. The film stars Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Karl Malden, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Rennie, and Melvyn Douglas. The story takes place in the St Gregory's Hotel, in New Orleans, owned by Warren Trent (Melvyn Douglas). The hotel is in financial trouble and hotel manager Peter McDermott (Rod Taylor) involves himself in the overtures by two different buyers, takes r... more

Hotel is a 1967 Technicolor film adaptation of the novel Hotel written by Arthur Hailey. The film stars Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Karl Malden, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Rennie, and Melvyn Douglas. The story takes place in the St Gregory's Hotel, in New Orleans, owned by Warren Trent (Melvyn Douglas). The hotel is in financial trouble and hotel manager Peter McDermott (Rod Taylor) involves himself in the overtures by two different buyers, takes romantic interest in Jeanne Rochefort (Catherine Spaak), an upper-class European guest, and deals with a wide range of routine problems. One of the buyers, O'Keefe (Kevin McCarthy), intends to renovate and "modernize" the hotel, with conveyor belts carrying luggage automatically around the building like it were some sort of modern airport terminal, and even presenting the customer's bill on a conveyor belt. Among the guests at the hotel are The Duke and Duchess of Croydon (Michael Rennie and Merle Oberon), a wealthy couple hiding out after... less