A hunt for a spy, in an hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.A hunt for a spy, in an hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.A hunt for a spy, in an hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.
Joseph Almas
- Albert, the waiter
- (as Josef Almas)
Hella Kürty
- Hilda Vogel
- (as Hella Kurty)
- Directors
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaClare Hamilton, who plays Mary Skelton, was the sister of Maureen O' Hara. This would be her one and only screen appearance.
- GoofsAll 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 creditsOpening 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 ...
- ConnectionsRemade as Epitaph for a Spy (1953)
Featured review
A young James Mason does a fine job in this film. The story is set a few years before the start of WW II. Mason is a guest at a quiet resort hotel in France. His camera is accidentally used by a German spy who has an identical one. When Mason takes a roll of film to be developed, the roll contains several pictures of top secret French aircraft and facilities. The police question Mason and are able to determine that he is innocent in the matter. But, they use the charges against him as leverage to get him to assist them in finding out which of the other hotel guests is the spy. How he succeeds makes for a most interesting and tension filled story.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Epitaph for a Spy
- Filming locations
- D&P Studios, Denham, Uxbridge, Buckinghamshire, England, UK(studio: made at)
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- Runtime1 hour 19 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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