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6.5/10 • 16

1944-06-011h 29m

Thriller

Death Signs the Register

A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.

Directors
Lance Comfort, Mutz Greenbaum, Victor Hanbury
Editors
Sidney Stone

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  1. James Mason

    James Mason

    Peter Vadassy

  2. Lucie Mannheim

    Lucie Mannheim

    Mme Suzanne Koch

  3. Raymond Lovell

    Raymond Lovell

    Robert Duclos

  4. Julien Mitchell

    Julien Mitchell

    Michel Beghin, intelligence chief

  5. Herbert Lom

    Herbert Lom

    Andre Roux

  6. Martin Miller

    Martin Miller

    Walter Vogel

  7. Clare Hamilton

    Clare Hamilton

    Mary Skelton

  8. Frederick Valk

    Frederick Valk

    Emil Schimler, alias Paul Heimberger

  9. Patricia Medina

    Patricia Medina

    Odette Roux

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CinemaSerf

Mar 28, 2022

5/10

James Mason is having an holiday in an hotel in France just before the outset of WWII. When he goes to collect some developed photographs he has taken, he is detained by the police who accuse him of illegally photographing sites around Toulon that might be of interest to the enemies of the Republic. It's pretty clear that the investigating officer believes his claims of innocence, but he is still sent back to keep tabs on the other guests at the hotel or face prison, deportation and quite possibly the Gestapo. The hotel has no shortage of likely suspects - Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell and Herbert Lom to name but three, and he must try to find the would-be traitor without getting trapped in the web of intrigue that is clearly being spun around him. Mason engages us well, as does Lom and Frederick Valk and it's a bit like a game of Cluedo - there are plenty of clues and potential perpetrators and in the main, the story sustains quite decent degree of suspense before the villain is exposed and we are, sadly, delivered of a pretty flat conclusion. Still worth watching, though.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Keywords
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