A woman reporter discovers a former lover and intelligence officer during WWII apparently working as a waiter in a hotel; and, believing something she impulsively did while he was on a mission is responsible for his current situation, sets out to make things better by finding a foreign agent known only as Kupchek, with the help of the hotel's detective.
Direction
Sterling packs a feature's worth of plot into 69 tight minutes.
Production
Hotel as labyrinth—every corridor hides a different genre.
Director
Joseph Sterling
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Britain's post-Suez identity crisis, the film's anxious energy mirrors a nation questioning its intelligence community's purpose.
Mary Mackenzie was primarily a stage actress; this was one of her few film leads, and she reportedly found the rushed schedule 'absolutely barbaric.'
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