Hotel Splendide
Jerry Mason inherits a seaside hotel but discovers that a gang of robbers have buried their loot on the site where the hotel now stands.
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"An advantage of a really short film is that if your final ten minutes are really fun then they end up representing a much larger percentage of the overall experience than in a normal feature length film. This allows those final ten minutes to elevate the viewing more fully, providing a capper with greater effect. Well, that's what happens with Hotel Splendide, Michael Powell's second surviving feature where the first 40 minutes are a slightly amusing look at a combination of comedy of errors and criminal investigation which bleed into a final ten minutes that takes everything that ca..."
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In the 1920s the young Michael Powell had genuinely abandoned his job as a clerk to go and help run his father's hotel in Nice, France.
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Jerry Mason inherits a seaside hotel but discovers that a gang of robbers have buried their loot on the site where the hotel now stands.