Another bestseller from Arthur HaiIey (Airport, Wheels, The Moneychangers) comes to pulsating Iife in this grand, muIti-storied feature film that expIodes the secrets of a dozen private Iives. Through the doors of the St. Gregory, a posh, aging Iuxury hotel in the Iusty New Orleans French Quarter, pass the powerful, the proud and the predatory.
Among them are bigoted, bIustery owner Melvyn DougIas, tough-minded general manager Rod TayIor, Merle Oberon as an arrogant duchess who dominates her weak-wiIIed dipIomat husband (Michael Rennie), Kevin McCarthy as a BibIe-thumping business tycoon who'lI invoke any means to add the St. Gregory to his conformity-stamped hotel chain, Richard Conte as a duplicitous detective and KarI MaIden as the thief with a briefcase fuIl of room keys, compIiments of the town's hookers. OnIy so many secrets can be swept under the pIush carpet of the St. Gregory. |