Hotel Reserve (1944)

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James Mason

Peter Vadassy

Lucie Mannheim

Madame Suzanne Koche (owner)

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

Lawrence Hanray

Police Commissioner

David Ward

Henri Asticot

Valentine Dyall

Warren Skelton

Joseph Almas

Albert, the waiter
(as Josef Almas)

Patricia Hayes

Jacqueline

Hella Kürty

Hilda Vogel
(as Hella Kurty)

Ivor Barnard

P. Molon - the chemist [druggist]

Ernst Ulman

Detective in Black Suit

Directors
Writers
- Eric Ambler
- John Davenport
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Trivia
Clare Hamilton, who plays Mary Skelton, was the sister of Maureen O' Hara. This would be her one and only screen appearance.

Goofs
All online summaries of the plot identify the year being 1938, but days and dates seen on the calendar in Peter's room are only correct if the year is 1937. Whoever wrote the original synopses for this film apparently knows no French.

Quotes
[last lines]
Mme Suzanne Koch: Let them be happy, while they can. There are so few summers. There's so little time.

Crazy credits
Opening credits prologue: A holiday...in France...before the war...yet even then the plane-trees and cypresses of the South cast shadows in the sun.

It happened in August 1938 ...

Connections
Remade as Epitaph for a Spy (1953)

Alfred or no Alfred, still very much worth seeing

"Hotel Reserve", a spy movie from the '40s, is thoroughly enjoyable, though it does have its faults.

The story deals with a vacationing medical student (a very young and good-looking James Mason) who is mistaken for an enemy spy by the French police. Realizing he is innocent, the police department send him back to his hotel with the mission of finding out which of the guests is really the spy.

Though a good film, the supporting cast is weak. Mr Mason is at his usual elegant standard, and I must say that I love the guy playing Duclos, but many of the other parts could have been better filled. I agree that it would have been interesting to see what Hitch would have done with it, but Alfred or no Alfred, "Hotel Reserve" is still very much worth seeing.