Hotel Reserve (1944)
Death Signs the Register
A hunt for a spy in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.
- Date of release
- 1944-06-01
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (20)
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Genres
- Thriller, Drama
- Director
- Lance Comfort, Mutz Greenbaum, Victor Hanbury
Casting
- James Mason — Peter Vadassy
- Lucie Mannheim — Mme Suzanne Koch
- Raymond Lovell — Robert Duclos
- Julien Mitchell — Michel Beghin, intelligence chief
- Herbert Lom — Andre Roux
- Martin Miller — Walter Vogel
- Clare Hamilton — Mary Skelton
- Frederick Valk — Emil Schimler, alias Paul Heimberger
- Patricia Medina — Odette Roux
- Anthony Shaw — Major Anthony Chandon-Hartley
- Laurence Hanray — Police Commissioner
- David Ward — Henri Asticot
Interesting facts
Hotel Reserve is a 1944 British spy film starring James Mason as an innocent man caught up in pre-Second World War espionage. Other cast members include Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell and Herbert Lom. It was based on Eric Ambler's 1938 novel Epitaph for a Spy. Unusually, it was both directed and produced by a trio: Lance Comfort, Mutz Greenbaum and Victor Hanbury. It was shot at Denham Studios with sets designed by the art director William C. Andrews. The film was produced and distributed by the British branch of RKO Pictures.
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