The Inn Where No Man Rests
About The Inn Where No Man Rests
A traveler, played by Georges Méliès, is shown to a room. He argues briefly with the hostess and a porter, then is left alone. The furniture and the objects in the room start to move. He raises enough noise that the household runs to the door to see what is wrong. The French title is L'Auberge du bon repos.
Cast & crew
More about The Inn Where No Man Rests
Méliès wrote and directed the comic trick film, Star Film numbers 465–469. It expands his 1897 short The Bewitched Inn. The United States release title is The Inn Where No Man Rests. Britain sold it as The Inn of "Good Rest." A U.S. date given is 27 June 1903. The length is listed as 100 meters, about 5 minutes. The table and a pendulum are moved by stage machinery. Other objects hang on wires. Substitution splices cover the rest.
Themes
Making
Méliès kept the chase inside one bedroom set. Wires and a stop-camera splice make the bed and the objects refuse to stay put.
Look
One room, stage machinery, wires, and substitution splices. Méliès does not cut away to a second set.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The British title puts quotation marks around Good Rest.
- It is a longer working-out of The Bewitched Inn rather than a new plot.
- The joke is a drunk man's room, not a ghost story with a named spirit.
- Méliès plays the traveler himself.
- A Wikimedia copy uses the French title.
Scenes
- Left alone, the traveler watches the furniture start to move.
- The noise brings the rest of the inn to his door.
Influenced by
- The Bewitched Inn (1897)
Also available
- Internet Archive (youtube-Y5PYFagaOlQ)
- Wikimedia Commons (L'Auberge du bon repos (1903).webm)
