Madame, there are 7,000 hotels in Paris, 220,000 hotel rooms... and on a night like this,...
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Ariane Chavasse:
[Calling the police to alert them about a jealous husband who has threatened to kill his unfaithful wife and her lover in the Ritz Hotel]
You've got to stop him! You must send somebody up there immediately! Commissaire de Police:
[over the phone, rather indifferently]
Madame, there are 7,000 hotels in Paris, 220,000 hotel rooms... and on a night like this, I'd say in about... 40,000 of those rooms, a similar situation... Now really, Madame, if we were to assign a policeman... to every one of these situations... No, Madame, it just staggers the imagination. It would take more than the entire Paris police force. It would take the fire department, the sanitation department... and possibly the Boy Scouts. Certainly, we don't want young boys in short pants... involved in situations like this
[Calling the police to alert them about a jealous husband who has threatened to kill his unfaithful wife and her lover in the Ritz Hotel]
You've got to stop him! You must send somebody up there immediately! Commissaire de Police:
[over the phone, rather indifferently]
Madame, there are 7,000 hotels in Paris, 220,000 hotel rooms... and on a night like this, I'd say in about... 40,000 of those rooms, a similar situation... Now really, Madame, if we were to assign a policeman... to every one of these situations... No, Madame, it just staggers the imagination. It would take more than the entire Paris police force. It would take the fire department, the sanitation department... and possibly the Boy Scouts. Certainly, we don't want young boys in short pants... involved in situations like this
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You wish to report a crime
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What is the crime
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There's a man and woman in the Hotel Ritz suite 14
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Man and woman suite 14 Hotel Ritz
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What is the crime
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You don't understand The woman is married
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I understand
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Hotel Ritz woman is married
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What is the crime
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She has a husband He has a gun
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Now we are getting somewhere
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He has no permit
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At 10 00 he'll break into the room
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and shoot
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Please madame do not excite yourself
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It's not 10 00 yet
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Now at 10 00 if he does shoot
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and he does not miss then call us again
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That will be too late
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Send somebody there immediately
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There are 7 000 hotels in Paris
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220 000 hotel rooms
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On a night like this
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I'd say in 40 000 of those rooms
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a similar situation
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If we had to send policemen
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to every one of these situations
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Movie Summary
A middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client.
Actors
Ariane Chavasse
