''L'Auberge du bon repos'', sold in the United States as ''The Inn Where No Man Rests'' and in Britain as ''The Inn of "Good Rest"'', is a 1903 French

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silent comedy film by

Georges Méliès Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (; ; 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French illusionist, actor, and film director. He led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was well known for the use of ...

. Set in an inn, the film addresses the state of the drunken mind with light heartedness.

Production

''The Inn Where No Man Rests'' is an expanded version of an earlier Méliès film, ''

The Bewitched Inn ''The Bewitched Inn'' (French: ''L'auberge ensorcelée'') is an 1897 French short silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 122–123 in its catalogs. Plot A traveler arrive ...

'' (1897). The Moon and a manic chase, as featured in the film, are both common motifs in Méliès's work. As usual for his films, the chase here is circular, within a single set; however, Méliès did eventually try the linear, multi-scene chase format of his contemporaries (such as

Ferdinand Zecca Ferdinand Zecca (19 February 1864 – 23 March 1947) was a Innovator, pioneer French film director, film producer, actor and screenwriter. He worked primarily for the Pathé company, first in artistic endeavors then in administration of the inter ...

and Lucien Nonguet) in his film ''

A Desperate Crime ''A Desperate Crime'' (french: Les Incendiaires), also known as ''Histoire d'un crime'', was a 1906 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. Plot As night falls on a farmyard in the French countryside, four masked bandits climb over the ...

''. Méliès himself plays the traveler in the film. The table and pendulum are animated using stage machinery; other objects are pulled or suspended using wire, and additional effects are worked using

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s. ''The Inn Where No Man Rests'' was sold by Méliès's

Star Film Company The Manufacture de films pour cinématographes, often known as Star Film, was a French film production company run by the illusionist and film director Georges Méliès. History On 28 December 1895, Méliès attended the celebrated first publi ...

and is numbered 465–469 in its catalogues.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Inn Where No Man Rests, The 1903 films French black-and-white films Films directed by Georges Méliès French silent short films 1903 comedy films French comedy short films Silent French comedy films