- published: 23 Oct 2007
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A hotel detective is a plain clothes person engaged to monitor the security of a hotel and investigate various security or rule violations therein -- not the same as uniformed security guards employed by a hotel.
Hotel detectives were often retired or ex-Military or police officers with good training and feature prominently in certain noir fiction, especially in the works of Raymond Chandler, and are sometimes referred to as "House Dicks". The term "hotel detective" is no longer widely used, as most hotels now employ uniformed security staff who leave any investigations to law enforcement agencies.
Actors: Penélope Cruz (actress), Gianmarco Tognazzi (actor), Carol Alt (actress), David Pasquesi (actor), Giuliano Gemma (actor), Mariano Rigillo (actor), Roberto Della Casa (actor), Paolo De Vita (actor), Jesse Eisenberg (actor), Roberto Benigni (actor), Woody Allen (actor), Antonino Bruschetta (actor), Alec Baldwin (actor), Ornella Muti (actress), Judy Davis (actress),
Plot: In Rome, the America tourist Hayley meets the local lawyer Michelangelo on the street and soon they fall in love with each other. Hayley's parents, the psychiatrist Phyllis and the retired music producer Jerry, travel to Rome to meet Michelangelo and his parents. When Jerry listens to Michelangelo's father Giancarlo singing opera in the shower, he is convinced that he is a talented opera singer. But there is a problem: Giancarlo can only sing in the shower. The couple Antonio and Milly travel to Rome to meet Antonio's relatives that belong to the high society. Milly goes to the hairdresser while Antonio waits for her in the room. Milly gets lost in Rome and the prostitute Anna mistakenly goes to Antonio's room. Out of the blue, his relatives arrive in the room and they believe Anna is Antonio's wife. Meanwhile the shy Milly meets her favorite actor Luca Salta (Antonio Albanese) and goes to his hotel room "to discuss about movies". One day, the middle-class clerk Leopoldo becomes a celebrity and is hunted by the paparazzo. A couple of days later, he is forgotten by the media. The American architect John travels to Rome with his wife and feels nostalgic since he lived in the city thirty years ago when he was a student. He meets the student of architecture Jack, who lives on the same street that John had lived, and he invited to drink a coffee at his house. Jack lives with his girlfriend Sally (Greta Gerwig) that invites her best friend Monica to stay with them in their house. But soon Jack has a crush on Monica.
Keywords: actress, adultery, american-tourist, ancient-ruins, architect, bisexual-woman, celebrity, city-in-title, colosseum-rome, coming-out-of-retirementActors: Piet Fuchs (actor), Wotan Wilke Möhring (actor), Heike Makatsch (actress), David Groenewold (producer), Michael Gwisdek (actor), Bernhard Marsch (actor), Ivan Shvedoff (actor), Michael London (actor), Oliver Damian (miscellaneous crew), Lars Gärtner (actor), Judy Tossell (producer), Marc Wächter (producer), Katja Hoerstmann (miscellaneous crew), Beate Scheel (costume designer), Regina Lemnitz (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music,Actors: Edgar J. Scherick (producer), John Ingle (actor), Jack Kehler (actor), Jaclyn Smith (actress), David Shire (composer), Bundy Chanock (miscellaneous crew), Lou Antonio (director), Ralph B. Meyer (miscellaneous crew), Christopher Reeve (actor), Christina Pickles (actress), Glynnis O'Connor (actress), Tom Mason (actor), Wren T. Brown (actor), Gary Griffin (editor), Patrick Culliton (actor),
Genres: Drama, Thriller,Actors: Yves Vincent (actor), Goffredo Unger (actor), Pietro Torrisi (actor), Claudio Ruffini (actor), Valentino Macchi (actor), Raymond Bussières (actor), Pietro Ceccarelli (actor), Andrea Bosic (actor), John Bartha (actor), Anthony Dawson (actor), Claudio Brook (actor), John Karlsen (actor), Jess Hahn (actor), Jacques Herlin (actor), George Wang (actor),
Plot: When Gordon Smash tries to get away with the loot from a successful diamond heist, his fellow conspirators shoot him in the back. Smash manages to get a clue to newspaper reporter Robert Foster, who sets of to retrieve the diamonds. Despite becoming a target for the rest of the gang, Foster prefers to rely on fashion model Arabella and news paper photographer 'Flash' instead of the more seasoned Inspector Chandler.
Keywords: attempted-murder, betrayal, model, thiefActors: Jimmie Dundee (actor), Herbert Evans (actor), Mike Donovan (actor), John Davidson (actor), Griff Barnett (actor), Willie Best (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Eddie Acuff (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Macdonald Carey (actor), George Chandler (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Eddie Coke (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Frank Faylen (actor),
Plot: Captain Mary Morley ('Paulette Goddard' (qv)), WAC marital-relations expert, known as "Captain Lonelyhearts", returns from overseas as escort to some G.I. war brides, and she hopes to patch up the estrangement from Peter Morley ('Fred MacMurray' (qv)), her husband and former law partner. The latter has fallen for beautiful Gloria Fay ('Arleen Whelan' (qv)) and is waiting at the airport with a divorce consent requiring Mary's signature. Peter, hoping to be more persuasive later, asks her to have dinner with him later at the Ski Club. Jack Lindsay ('Macdonald Carey' (qv)), a client of Peter's who has been using their apartment mistakes Mary for one of the intended bridesmaids and asks about Gloria. Now that Mary knows about Gloria, she asks Jack to bring Gloria to the Ski Club dinner. Still in love with Peter, Mary refuses to sign the divorce paper and asks Jack to take her home. Mary is ordered to Fort Sheridan and Peter and Jack board her train - Peter still after her signature and Jack also hoping she will sign as he has fallen for her. Jack advises Peter to make himself so repulsive that Mary will be glad to get rid of him. When Mary reaches Chicago, she is met by three WAC officers and Peter, puffing a king-size cigar, who swoops in and scoops her into his arms. Realizing that Peter must want a divorce badly by staging such a performance, Mary finally consents. Later, when Mary and Peter are going through their personal effects, they begin to reminisce and realize their disagreements were over trivial matters. They embrace, leaving Jack and Gloria out in the cold.
Keywords: 1940s, airport, apartment, army-base, attorney, chicago-illinois, cigar-smoking, cigarette-smoking, deceit, deceptionActors: Willis Kent (producer), Clara Kimball Young (actress), Bob Burns (actor), Rose Plumer (actress), Ed Cassidy (actor), John Ince (actor), Blanche Mehaffey (actress), Donald Kerr (actor), Frank LaRue (actor), Carleton Young (actor), Horace Murphy (actor), Henry Hall (actor), Bryant Washburn (actor), Kenneth Harlan (actor), Willy Castello (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Max Barwyn (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Chester Gan (actor), Charles K. French (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Berton Churchill (actor), Lowden Adams (actor), Frank Craven (actor), Herman Bing (actor), Billy Franey (actor), Reginald Denny (actor), Harry Dunkinson (actor), John Elliott (actor), Frank Fanning (actor), Ferdinand Gottschalk (actor),
Plot: Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
Keywords: boat, brother, cafe, circus, country-club, department-store, dignity, diving, drunkenness, engagementActors: Billy Gilbert (actor), Chris-Pin Martin (actor), James Burke (actor), James P. Burtis (actor), Jerry Frank (actor), Sydney Jarvis (actor), Berton Churchill (actor), Harry Depp (actor), Andy Devine (actor), Johnny Downs (actor), Billy Bletcher (actor), Edward Earle (actor), Jack Haley (actor), Leon Errol (actor), Art Miles (actor),
Plot: Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego track, in a tent-city with her father. Otto, and ditzy sister, Violet, June Wray is a singer with the Eddy Duchin Orchestra appearing to the hotel. Johnny Marvin, an aspiring songwriter and the son of a wealthy automobile manufacturer, is staying at the hotel and, from they moment June and Johnny meet, they fall instantly in love. Trouble arises when Johnny's father objects to the romance, and complications and help arrive in the form of two Marine-hating sailors,Chuck Hornbostel and "Pinky" Falls, when Chuck marries June's ditzy sister.
Keywords: 1930s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, brawl, brother-brother-relationship, brother-in-law-sister-in-law-relationship, california, cigarette-smoking, dance-band-singer, dancerActors: Lew Harvey (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Robert Barrat (actor), Arthur Aylesworth (actor), James Cagney (actor), Hobart Cavanaugh (actor), Spencer Charters (actor), Jack Cheatham (actor), Clay Clement (actor), James P. Burtis (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Frank Fanning (actor), Eddie Fetherston (actor), Sherry Hall (actor), Ben Hendricks Jr. (actor),
Plot: Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered, Ann Reid is missing and Eddie Kennedy is accused of murder.
Keywords: cafe-owner, car-accident, card-game, dance, detective, egg, escape, farm, farmer, fireActors: Daniel Mandell (editor), Monte Collins (actor), James Finlayson (actor), Mark Sandrich (director), Bobby Clark (actor), Frank O'Connor (actor), John Sheehan (actor), Charles Williams (actor), Dorothy Granger (actress), Bobby Clark (writer), John Grey (writer), Ben Holmes (writer), Mark Sandrich (writer), Paul McCullough (actor), Sandra Shaw (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,