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Hotel Reserve is a British film of genre Thriller directed by Mutz Greenbaum released in USA on 28 june 1946 with James Mason
Hotel Reserve (1944)
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Add to a movie listHotel Reserve is a 1944 spy film starring James Mason as an innocent man caught up in pre-Second World War espionage. It was based on Eric Ambler's novel Epitaph for a Spy. Unusually, it was both directed and produced by a trio: Lance Comfort, Mutz Greenbaum (credited as Max Greene) and Victor Hanbury.
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In 1938, refugee Peter Vadassy (James Mason) decides to take a vacation at the Hotel Reserve to celebrate both his completion of medical school and his impending French citizenship. When he goes to pick up some photographs at the local pharmacy, he is taken away and questioned by Michel Beghin (Julien Mitchell) of French naval intelligence. When his negatives had been developed, some of them turned out to be of French military installations. It is discovered that while the camera is the same make as Peter's, the serial number is different. Peter is released on condition that he find out which other hotel guests have cameras like his.Actors
James Mason
(Peter Vadassy)
Lucie Mannheim
(Mme Suzanne Koch)
Raymond Lovell
(Robert Duclos)
Herbert Lom
(Andre Roux)
Martin Miller
(Walter Vogel)
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