Hotel (1967 Film) Pete's French Quarter Apartment With Jeanne Released by Warner Bros. on January 19, 1967 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The copyright for this film is owned by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Warner Group. There is no intent to infringe upon that copyright. Indeed, this video is for the purpose of creating enough public interest to encourage Warner Bros. to re-release the film. There is an inexcusable error in both the opening and closing credits; Carmen McRae's name is incorrectly spelled as "MacRae". Her performances, alone, are worth the price of admission.The song, "Bourbon Street", prominently featured here. is played throughout the film and was composed and conducted by Johnny Keating. It is the haunting jazz melody of this song that stayed with me throughout the years since I saw the film in 1967, as well as the beauty of Catherine Spaak. HOTEL is not a good film; it is an outstanding film. Yet, it lost more than $650,000 at the box office. One may ask why a film so good lost so much money and the answer is simple; the film was released either a year or two too late, or a decade or two too early. HOTEL was one of the last, if not the last film, to have a complete all-star cast. But, the interests of younger audiences had changed and other 1967 films (it was a bumper year for film releases) had changed to films with new stars such as BONNIE AND CLYDE and THE GRADUATE, and other films like THE DIRTY DOZEN. The viewer is directed to the review of the film by Bosley Crowther in the New York Times in this link: http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?r... Directed by Richard Quine; Written and Produced by Wendell Mayes; Musical Score and Original Songs by Johnnie Keating; Costumes by Howard Shoup; Gowns by Edith Head; Based on the novel HOTEL by Alex Hailey. Starring: Rod Taylor as Peter McDermott, Catherine Spaak as Jeanne Rochefort, Karl Malden as Keycase Milne, Melvyn Douglas as Warren Trent, Richard Conte as Det. Dupere, Merle Oberon as the Duchess Caroline, Michael Rennie as the Duke of Lanbourne, Kevin McCarthy as Curtis O'Keefe, Alfred Ryder as Capt. Yolles, Roy Roberts as Bailey(Head Desk Cerk), Al Checco as Herbie Chandler, Sheila Bromley as Mrs. Grandin, Harry Hickox as Sam, William Lanteau as Mason, Ken Lynch as Joe Laswell, Clinton Sundberg as Lawrence Morgan,Tol Avery as Kilbrick, Davis Roberts as Dr. Elmo Adams, And A Special Appearance by Carmen McRae (as Christine) and her band. Some interesting trivia: Roy Robbins played a similar role two decades earlier in the 1947 Academy Award winning film, GENTELEMEN’S AGREEMENT, turning Gregory Peck away because he was Jewish; HOTEL was so great a failure that it inspired a highly successful NBC TV Series titled HOTEL that ran from 1983 through 1988, moving the hotel from New Orleans to San Francisco; Karl Malden as the hotel thief Keycase Milne said in both his autobiography and in several interviews that he enjoyed that role more than any other he played because his entire role had virtually no dialogue but was highly successful. Indeed, Malden had a smile or grin throughout the film that, while he did not invent the acronym, he gave clear definition to S.E.G.; Warner Bros. spent a great deal of money to bring Catherine Spaak to Bubank, only to lose her when the film failed to make money, as she returned to Paris to continue her highly successful career as both an actress and vocalist. Her official site shows, prominently, the hat she wore when she had lunch in the film with Rod Taylor at Pat O’Brien’s in New Orleans; Merle Oberon wore her own jewels in the film, featuring a broche that had once belonged to Marie Antoinette. Her jewel collection was valued at about $325,000 in 1967, multiply by 7.1 for current dollars. Despite all this, Taylor rates this movie as one of the least favorite of his career: "It made a lot of people a lot of money, but personally I didn't like "Hotel. 'I was so restricted I could not be my usual gregarious self. I was so stiff, I hated myself in that'".-- TV Times (Australia), Dec. 18, 1976 But the critics felt otherwise; Rod Taylor's performance received rave reviews. Taylor always underestimated his dramatic skills. Rod Taylor passed away on January 7 this year...Rest In Peace Rod Taylor, May The Grace Of G-d Be With You. Please help in the fight against Leukemia and other life-threatening diseases. Donations can be made to NPO LIVE FOR LIFE MINAKO FOUNDATION http://live-for-life.jp/ Non-Japanese viewers please go to Google, paste in the link and click on "Translate This Page."

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