Hotel [VHS]
by Richard Quine

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VHS Movie Reviews of Hotel [VHS]

Movie Review: where's the DVD for this GEM of a movie?
Summary: 5 Stars

Movie Review: Wish I worked there
Summary: 4 Stars

Movie Review: Hotel - Where women are "ladies" and men are "gentlemen"
Summary: 5 Stars

Catherine Spaak and Merle Oberon are luminous in Edith Head gowns, although Catherine's posture is noticably askew (her mother should've reminded her to sit up straight). Rod Taylor's performance is marvelous, but somewhat restrained for his typical style. However, no one does a love scene with more tenderness than Rod, so it's small wonder Spaak would dump McCarthy's character for Taylor's regardless of money!

Melvyn Douglas is at his best as the curmudgeon hotelier (stroke and all), Kevin McCarthy is the takeover louse you love to hate and Karl Malden almost steals the entire movie as the hotel thief who just can't make a killing. There are also delightful performances by bit players throughout the movie; McCarthy's "oily" sychophantic male secretary and the hotel staff, especially the errant bell captain who's on the take.

The background music is sometimes annoyingly loud (the editors should have caught that!), but Carmen MacRae's all too brief appearances as the hotel saloon singer make up for any soundtrack problems. Carmen could "turn a lyric" as well as Ella!

With all of the sub-plots, you just can't wait to see what happens next and of course, what's not to love about a mostly happy ending.

My only complaint is the common mistake of mispronouncing New Orleans. If you've spent any time there, you already know it's pronounced New "Or-luhnz" not New "Or-leeeens". LOL

Movie Review: Hotel...Two Hours of Distilled Style
Summary: 5 Stars

Movie Review: Hotel - A reminder of movies made in more genteel times.
Summary: 4 Stars

The opening sequence was a very original one, and the character of the Duchess Of Lanbourne, may have been a thinly veiled characterization based in part on the Duchess Of Windsor (Wallis Simpson). The costumes worn by Merle Oberon in this film appear similar to the fashions worn by the Duchess Of Windsor herself during the late 1960's.

Summary of Hotel [VHS]

Ensemble Films Video

• Genres > Drama > By Theme
• Melodrama
• Classics