Hotel Reserve ( Epitaph for a Spy )

Hotel Reserve (DVD) (*)

$26.99

Original Title: Epitaph for a Spy
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
85 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1944 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Lance Comfort
Mutz Greenbaum

Written By:
Eric Ambler
John Davenport

Actors:
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

Synopsis:

In 1938, medical student Peter Vadassy, an Austrian national, is vacationing at the Hotel Reserve along the French Riviera. Half French, Vadassy has been living in France for the past five years because of the Nazi invasion of Austria. He hopes of becoming a naturalized French citizen, the completion of that process which is imminent. Because of some photographs on the film in his camera, Vadassy is questioned by the French police on the suspicion of being a Nazi spy. In reality, the police know that Vadassy is innocent of these charges, and that someone switched cameras with him. That someone is currently staying or working at the Hotel Reserve. The police are not averse to using Vadassy as a scapegoat for what has happened and deport him back to Nazi occupied Austria following his certain imprisonment. They leave it up to Vadassy to figure out who the Nazi spy is in an effort to clear his name.

Based on the Eric Ambler novel entitled 'Epitaph for a Spy', this is the story of a medical student on the Riviera during the Summer before WWII begins. A refugee from Austria, he has been photographing wildlife. When the film he develops contains secret installations, he must prove that he is not a German spy or be deported. With the police and help from a romantic interest that pops up along the way, he has to try to flush out the real spy to clear himself. Critical reviews were mixed, though Mason did an admirable job on his character.

An Austrian medical student living and working in France is hauled in by the police while on holiday in the south of the country. Accused of espionage he is sent back to his hotel to find out who might really be the spy. Not only his freedom but his chance of becoming a French citizen rests on what he can uncover,

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 21 September, 2011.

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