Hotel Reserve
Death Signs the Register
1944 | 89m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Lance Comfort, Mutz Greenbaum, Victor Hanbury |
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| Writer: | Eric Ambler, John Davenport |
| Staring: |
| A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two. | |
| Release Date: | Jun 01, 1944 |
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| Director: | Lance Comfort, Mutz Greenbaum, Victor Hanbury |
| Writer: | Eric Ambler, John Davenport |
| Genres: | Thriller |
| Keywords | france, spy, hotel |
| Production Companies | RKO Radio Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 (Update) Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Valentine Dyall | Warren Skelton |
| Joseph Almas | Albert, the Waiter |
| Patricia Hayes | Woman |
| Hella Kürty | Hilda Vogel |
| Ivor Barnard | P. Molon, chemist |
| Ernst Ulman | Detective in Black Suit |
| John Baker | Policeman |
| Mike Johnson | Old Man |
| Victor Rietti | Restaurant Owner |
| Hugo Schuster | Inspector |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Lance Comfort | Director |
| Eric Ambler | Novel |
| John Davenport | Adaptation, Screenplay |
| Lennox Berkeley | Music |
| Mutz Greenbaum | Director, Director of Photography |
| Sidney Stone | Editor |
| William C. Andrews | Art Direction |
| E.J. Holding | Production Manager |
| John Cook | Sound Recordist |
| Arthur Ibbetson | Camera Operator |
| Anthony Hearne | Second Assistant Director |
| Victor Hanbury | Director |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Lance Comfort | Producer |
| Mutz Greenbaum | Producer |
| Victor Hanbury | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 2 |
| 2024 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 3 |
| 2024 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 1 |
| 2024 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 2 |
| 2024 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 1 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 2024 | 11 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
| 2024 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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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.