Blame It on the Bellboy
The name of the luxury Venetian hotel is the "Hotel Gabrielli". The hotel does exist, overlooking the Venice Lagoon, and the exterior shots are of the hotel in its actual location. The interior filmed scenes don't reflect the interior of the actual hotel however.,Maurice Horton: So what's the form then? Do I pay you now?
Caroline Wright: You don't carry that sort of cash around, do you?
Maurice Horton: What sort of cash are we talking about?
Caroline Wright: Well, how much do you think it's worth?
Maurice Horton: It's all new to me.
[picks up his wallet],Television version substitutes alternate takes of several scenes toning down the sexuality but adding dialogue not in the theatrical/home video version.,Referenced in Mystery Science Theater 3000: Laserblast (1996),Feelings
(Pour Toi)
Music by Louis Gasté
French lyrics by Albert Simonin and Marie-Hélène Bourquin
English lyrics by Morris Albert,Take 3 Englishmen -

1. Michael Horton (a philanderer indulging in a surreptitious tryst) 2. Mike Lawton (a hit man assigned to rub out an Italian mob boss) 3. Melvin Orton (a mousey junior manager on a property-buying assignment for his overbearing boss)

and put them all in the same Venetian hotel with a bellhop who has great difficulty with the English language, and you have what promises to be a raucously funny good time, and 'Blame it on the Bellboy' delivers on the promise. This rousing comedy of confused identities comes right out of the tradition of the great British Ealing Studios film comedies of the late 50's and 60's (the same tradition 'A Fish Called Wanda' purported to come from; I found this movie a LOT funnier).

My only complaint is that some of the grim scenes of mob violence would be more at home in the 'Lethal Weapon' series; in a farce like this they seem jarringly out of place. However, beautiful Patsy Kensit's presence more than compensates for this minor complaint (she was the blonde secretary in Lethal Weapon 2, remember?).

On the whole, an A++ recommendation,