Hotel Continental (film)

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Hotel Continental
Hotel Continental lobby card.jpg
Lobby card
Directed by Christy Cabanne
Written by Warren Duff
F. Hugh Herbert
Paul Perez
Produced by Samuel Bischoff
Starring Peggy Shannon
Theodore von Eltz
J. Farrell MacDonald
Cinematography Ira H. Morgan
Edited by Rose Loewinger
Music by Val Burton
Edward Kilenyi
Production
company
Distributed byTiffany Productions
Release date
  • March 7, 1932 (1932-03-07)
Running time
67 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Hotel Continental is a 1932 American pre-Code crime film directed by Christy Cabanne and starring Peggy Shannon, Theodore von Eltz and J. Farrell MacDonald. [1]

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Plot

Various criminals search for loot stashed in a luxury hotel which is about to close.

Cast

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References

  1. Monaco p.91

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