Hotel Reserve


Hotel Reserve is a 1944 spy film starring James Mason as an innocent man caught up in preSecond World War espionage. It was based on Eric Amblers 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.

Peter does some snooping and eavesdrops on a suspicious conversation between Paul Heimberger Frederick Valk and the hotels proprietor, Madame Suzanne Koch Lucie Mannheim. He searches Heimbergers room and finds several passports, all with different names and nationalities. Heimberger catches him in the act, but eventually matters are straightened out. Heimberger explains that he was originally a Social Democratic newspaper publisher who was antiNazi and been sent to a concentration camp for two years. After he was released, he joined an underground movement against the German regime.Peter spots his camera in the pocket of a dressinggown belonging to Odette Roux Patricia Medina and Andre Herbert Lom, a couple on their honeymoon. Andre first tries to bribe Peter into giving him the negative and, when that fails, threatens him with a pistol. The police arrive at that moment and arrest Peter for espionage. ........

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