Hotel Reserve | |
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Directed by | Lance Comfort Mutz Greenbaum Victor Hanbury |
Screenplay by | John Davenport |
Based on | Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler |
Produced by | Lance Comfort Mutz Greenbaum Victor Hanbury |
Starring | James Mason Lucie Mannheim Raymond Lovell |
Cinematography | Mutz Greenbaum |
Edited by | Sidney Stone |
Music by | Lennox Berkeley |
Production company | |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release dates | |
Running time | 79-90 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Hotel Reserve is a 1944 British spy film starring James Mason as an innocent man caught up in pre-Second World War espionage.[2] Other cast members include Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell and Herbert Lom. It was based on Eric Ambler's 1938 novel Epitaph for a Spy.[3] Unusually, it was both directed and produced by a trio: Lance Comfort, Mutz Greenbaum and Victor Hanbury.[4] It was shot at Denham Studios with sets designed by the art director William C. Andrews. The film was produced and distributed by the British branch of RKO Pictures.