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Hotel Reserve

Hotel Reserve

6.5

1944

89 min

Thriller

A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.

Hotel Reserve

6.5

1944

89 min

Thriller

A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.

Cast

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

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

3 years ago

James Mason is having an holiday in an hotel in France just before the outset of WWII. When he goes to collect some developed photographs he has taken, he is detained by the police who accuse him of illegally photographing sites around Toulon that might be of interest to the enemies of the Republic. It's pretty clear that the investigating officer believes his claims of innocence, but he is still sent back to keep tabs on the other guests at the hotel or face prison, deportation and quite possibly the Gestapo. The hotel has no shortage of likely suspects - Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell and Herbert Lom to name but three, and he must try to find the would-be traitor without getting trapped in the web of intrigue that is clearly being spun around him. Mason engages us well, as does Lom and Frederick Valk and it's a bit like a game of Cluedo - there are plenty of clues and potential perpetrators and in the main, the story sustains quite decent degree of suspense before the villain is exposed and we are, sadly, delivered of a pretty flat conclusion. Still worth watching, though.