Another bestseller from Arthur HaiIey (Airport, Wheels, The Moneychangers) comes to pulsating Iife in this grand, multi-storied feature film that explodes the secrets of a dozen private lives. Through the doors of the St. Gregory, a posh, aging Iuxury hoteI in the lusty New OrIeans French Quarter, pass the powerfuI, the proud and the predatory.
Among them are bigoted, blustery owner MeIvyn Douglas, tough-minded generaI manager Rod TayIor, Merle Oberon as an arrogant duchess who dominates her weak-willed diplomat husband (Michael Rennie), Kevin McCarthy as a Bible-thumping business tycoon who'Il invoke any means to add the St. Gregory to his conformity-stamped hoteI chain, Richard Conte as a dupIicitous detective and KarI MaIden as the thief with a briefcase full of room keys, compIiments of the town's hookers. OnIy so many secrets can be swept under the plush carpet of the St. Gregory. |