Hotel Imperial

This truly was a jinxed film. Based on a celebrated Hungarian play by Lajos Biro and made as a silent in 1927 with Pola Negri, it was revived as a talkie twice during the 1930s and was finally completed with Italian star Miranda (who would make only two other American films before returning permanently to Europe). She plays a chambermaid in a small hotel in Gallacia which is overrun during WW I by Russians and Austrians who keep taking and retaking the town. Miranda, however, is only impersonating a maid while she seeks the killer of her sister, and, after endless intrigues, she finally unearths the murderer, Naish, and takes her revenge. This was an expensively pr...