The V.I.P.s
- Elizabeth Taylor: Frances Andros
- Richard Burton: Paul Andros
- Louis Jourdan: Marc Champ Selle
- Elsa Martinelli: Gloria Gritti
- Orson Welles: Max Buda
- Rod Taylor: Les Mangrum
- Margaret Rutherford: Duchess of Brighton
- Maggie Smith: Miss Mead
- Linda Christian: Miriam Marshall
- Dennis Price: Commander Millbank
- Richard Wattis: Sanders
- Robert Coote: John Coburn
- Joan Benham: Miss Potter
- Martin Miller: Doctor Schwalbacher
- Stringer Davis: Hotel waiter
- Michael Hordern: Airport Director
Hotel International ( Original title: The VIPs ) is a British film director Anthony Asquith drama of from the year 1963.
Action
Due to dense fog closes the London airport. The passengers of the flight to New York will be housed in the International Hotel after a long wait. Among them, the frustrated and neglected Frances, who wants to leave her husband, Paul Andros, a millionaire entrepreneur, to start with her lover, the playboy and player Marc, a new life. Since the film director Max Buda, who wants to start a new project in support of the emerging actress Gloria Gritti, but also threatens the high tax audit in the UK, he should not have left the country until midnight. The Industrial Les Mangrum finally located with his secretary Miss Mead on the way to New York to negotiate with his bank. He wants to prevent the acquisition of his company by a group. Among the passengers is also the Duchess of Brighton. The impoverished nobleman intends to adopt in Florida a job as a deputy hotel manager, to save her English country estate before the sale.
As the story progresses, it is possible for the airport hurrying Andros, to persuade his wife to stay. Even Miss Mead, who is secretly in love with her boss, manages by Andros ' financial aid to rescue the company of her boss from bankruptcy. Also clarify the money problems of the Duchess of Brighton and the machine lifts the next day, twelve hours late, for New York.
Reviews
- " (...); simple-minded, talkative Grand Hotel dud; maudlin and false; . Lichtblicke by Maggie Smith, Orson Welles and Margaret Rutherford, who won the Oscar " ( Score: 1 ½ out of 4 stars = default) - Adolf Meier Heinzl and Berndt Schulz: Encyclopedia " Movies on TV "
- " A staged with great effort melodrama with a famous cast, which although to social criticism endeavor, but remains largely superficial and stereotypical arrested and never get beyond emotional moment of entertainment. " - Lexicon of international film
- " In the star-studded melodrama about love, money and jealousy especially shines Margaret Rutherford in the role of the Duchess of Brighton. " - Prism online movie database
Background
The episode of the lovers that wants to flee to New York is modeled on a true story. Vivien Leigh wanted to start with her lover Peter Finch a new life. Leigh's husband Laurence Olivier, however, managed waylay his wife at London Airport and bring home again.
The acronym "VIP" in the original film title stands for " Very Important Person " (Eng. "high " or " big shot ").
The phone number that Elizabeth Taylor in the film indicates ( Grosvenor 7060 ), was at the time when the film was shot, the London office number from MGM.
The almost simultaneously rotated German film The Endless Night by Will Tremper was stored thematically similar, but was rated by the critics much better.
Awards
The film was especially true of Margaret Rutherford as a success. For the supporting role of the impoverished nobility, she was honored with the Academy Award, Golden Globe, Laurel Award and the Prize of the American National Board of Review. Maggie Smith was also nominated for the part of Miss Mead for a Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actress. Cinematographer Jack Hildyard was nominated for the British Film Academy Award.
The Film Review Board Wiesbaden gave the production value the predicate.