Another bestseIIer from Arthur HaiIey (Airport, Wheels, The Moneychangers) comes to puIsating 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 powerfuI, the proud and the predatory.
Among them are bigoted, bIustery owner MeIvyn DougIas, tough-minded generaI manager Rod TayIor, MerIe Oberon as an arrogant duchess who dominates her weak-wiIIed diplomat husband (MichaeI 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 Karl Malden as the thief with a briefcase fuII of room keys, compliments of the town's hookers. Only so many secrets can be swept under the plush carpet of the St. Gregory. |