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7 March 1932 (USA)
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Hotel
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Investigation
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Motive
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Hotel Room
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Hotel Clerk
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Not So Grand Hotel
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Peggy Shannon | ... | Ruth Carleton |
| Theodore von Eltz | ... | Jim Bennett |
| J. Farrell MacDonald | ... | Detective Martin |
| Henry B. Walthall | ... | Winthrop |
| Alan Mowbray | ... | Walter Underwood |
| Mary Carlisle | ... | Alicia |
| Bert Roach | ... | Charlie Layton |
| Ethel Clayton | ... | Mrs. Underwood |
| Rockliffe Fellowes | ... | Tierney |
| William Scott | ... | Mills |
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Mystery Room 705 (USA) (TV title)
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67 min
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USA:Passed (National Board of Review)
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This poor knockoff of Vicki Baum's GRAND HOTEL -- or perhaps the MGM extravaganza produced the same year as this last gasp from Tiffany Productions -- is short of major stars in front of the camera, even though it does contain some notable names such as Theodore von Eltz, J. Farrell MacDonald and Henry Walthall from the silent era and future stalwart Alan Mowbray from the sound era. So it's fun to look at to see what they look like in 1932.
Christy Cabanne, a prolific director whose reputation time has not been kind to, is in there pitching with this one. There are an awful lot of moving shots, including extended takes that look like they were shot with a crab dolly -- something that would not exist for another dozen years.
Shot too cheaply to be done well, it shows that people did try, even when the roof was crashing in on their heads. Tiffany went under this year. Cabanne, who started out directing Raoul Walsh in LIFE OF PANCHO VILLA in 1912 and would continue directing for another sixteen always tried to give value for money. It's a pity he so rarely had much to work with.