Hotel Reserve

Hotel Reserve
Original UK cinema poster
Directed byLance Comfort
Mutz Greenbaum
Victor Hanbury
Screenplay byJohn Davenport
Based onEpitaph for a Spy
by Eric Ambler
Produced byLance Comfort
Mutz Greenbaum
Victor Hanbury
StarringJames Mason
Lucie Mannheim
Raymond Lovell
CinematographyMutz Greenbaum
Edited bySidney Stone
Music byLennox Berkeley
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release dates
  • 1 June 1944 (1944-06-01) (Premiere-London)[1]
  • 22 December 1945 (1945-12-22) (U.S.)[1]
Running time
79-90 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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.

  1. ^ a b "Hotel Reserve: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  2. ^ Hutchinson, Tom. "Hotel Reserve". Radio Times. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  3. ^ "Hotel Reserve (1944)". AllMovie. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  4. ^ "Hotel Reserve (1943)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.