Another bestseller from Arthur Hailey ( Airport; Wheels; The Moneychangers) comes to pulsating life 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 luxury hotel in the lusty New Orleans French Quarter; pass the powerful; the proud and the predatory. Among them are bigoted; blustery owner Melvyn Douglas; tough-minded general manager Rod Taylor; Merle Oberon as an arrogant Duchess who dominates her weak-willed diplomat husband (Michael Rennie); Kevin McCarthy as a Bible-thumping business tycoon who'll 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 full of room keys; compliments of the town's hookers. Only so many secrets can be swept under the plush carpet of the St. Gregory.
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