The V.I.P.S (Original title)International Hotel (Alternative title)The Vips (Help search title)
Dates: 1963 (Copyright), 22 September 1963 (Release)Countries: USA, United KingdomDirector: Anthony Asquith
Synopsis: A group of top-priority air passengers, each with an urgent reason to leave the country immediately, are detained at London Airport by fog. The passengers include Frances Andros, wife of a shipping magnate and her boy friend, an Australian tycoon and his secretary, a film producer and his latest protegée and the Duchess of Brighton. Their various problems are resolved whilst they wait overnight for their flight.
Genre: Drama
Dates: 1963 (Copyright), 22 September 1963 (Release)Countries: USA, United KingdomDirector: Anthony Asquith
Synopsis: A group of top-priority air passengers, each with an urgent reason to leave the country immediately, are detained at London Airport by fog. The passengers include Frances Andros, wife of a shipping magnate and her boy friend, an Australian tycoon and his secretary, a film producer and his latest protegée and the Duchess of Brighton. Their various problems are resolved whilst they wait overnight for their flight.
Genre: Drama
Credits
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©: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Taylor Productions, Presents: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Producer: Anatole de Grunwald, Associate Producer: Roy Parkinson, Unit Manager: Elisabeth Woodthorpe, [Unit/Production Manager]: Eddie Frewin, Production Adviser: Margaret Booth, [Production Secretary]: Valerie Cort, Crowd Director: Jimmy Komisarjevsky, Assistant Director: Kip Gowans, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Carl Mannin, Continuity: June Faithfull, [Casting]: Irene Howard, Screenplay: Terence Rattigan, Director of Photography: Jack Hildyard, 2nd Unit Photographer: Douglas Adamson, Camera Operator: Gerry Fisher, [Supervising Chargehand Electrician]: Cyril Cambridge, [Stills]: Joe Pearce, Special Effects: Tom Howard, Editor: Frank Clarke, Assembly Editor: Philip Barnikel, Art Director: William Kellner, [Assistant Art Director]: Ivor Beddoes, Set Decorator: Pamela Cornell, [Prop Buyer]: Bill Isaacs, Miss Elizabeth Taylor's Wardrobe: Givenchy, [Gowns]: Pierre Cardin, Wardrobe Supervisor: Felix Evans, [Wardrobe Master]: Ben Foster, [Wardrobe Mistress]: Gladys James, May Walding, Make-up: Tom Smith, Make-up: Eric Allwright, [Miss Taylor's Makeup]: Dave Aylott, Miss Taylor's Hairdresser: Vivienne Walker-zavitz, [Miss Taylor's Associate Hairdresser]: Philip Barkwell, [Hairdresser]: Bernadette Ibbetson, Music: Miklós Rózsa, Sound Supervisor: A.W. Watkins, Sound Recording: Cyril Swern, [Sound Camera Operator]: Ron Matthews, [Boom Operator]: Bill Baldwin, Dubbing Mixer: J.B. Smith, Sound Editor: Bill Creed, [Aviation Services]: John Crewdson
Cast
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Elizabeth Taylor (Frances Andros), Richard Burton (Paul Andros), Louis Jourdan (Marc Champselle), Elsa Martinelli (Gloria Gritti), Margaret Rutherford (Duchess of Brighton), Maggie Smith (Miss Mead), Rod Taylor (Les Mangrum), Orson Welles (Max Buda), Linda Christian (Miriam Marshall), Dennis Price (Commander Millbank), Richard Wattis (Sanders), David Frost (reporter), Ronald Fraser (Joslin), Robert Coote (John Coburn), Michael Hordern (airport director), Martin Miller (Dr Schwutzbacher), Lance Percival (BOAC official), Joan Benham (Miss Potter), Peter Sallis (doctor), Stringer Davis (hotel waiter), Clifton Jones (Jamaican passenger), Moyra Fraser (air hostess), Brook Williams ([1st reporter]), Alan Howard ([2nd reporter]), Lewis Fiander ([3rd reporter]), Barry Steele ([4th reporter]), Arthur Howard ([bar steward]), Griffith Davies ([porter]), Maggie McGrath ([waitress]), Frank Williams ([assistant to airport director]), Angus Lennie ([meteorological man]), Ray Austin ([Rolls chauffeur]), Rosemary Dorkin, Pamela Buckley ([airport announcer]), Duncan Lewis ([hotel receptionist]), Richard Briers ([meteorological officer]), Terence Alexander ([captain]), Richard Caldicot ([hotel representative]), Ann Castle ([lady reporter]), Clifford Mollison ([Mr Rivers, hotel manager]), Gordon Sterne ([official]), Reginald Beckwith ([head waiter]), John Blythe ([barman]), Virginia Bedard, Cal McCord ([visitor, Knebworth House]), Jill Carson ([air hostess]), Peter Illing ([Mr Damer]), Joyce Carey ([Mrs Damer]), Dilashad Jamani, Maureen See Tai, Lee Yu Ling ([air hostess]), Kofoworola Bucknor, Elisabeth Manford ([traveller])