Grand Hotel

1932

Action / Drama / Romance

24
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 77% · 55 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 77% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 22271 22.3K

all-star cast hotel card game burglar stolen money based on play or musical

Plot summary

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

Director

Edmund Goulding Photo
Edmund Goulding

Top cast

Curt Furburg Photo
Curt Furburg as Elevator Operator
Tully Marshall Photo
Tully Marshall as Gerstenkorn
Edwin Maxwell Photo
Edwin Maxwell as Dr. Waitz
Lionel Barrymore Photo
Lionel Barrymore as Otto Kringelein
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
788.07 MB
988*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 52 min
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1.67 GB
1472*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 52 min
Seeds 13

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by view_and_review 7 / 10

Grand Movie

"Grand Hotel" begins in the lobby of the Grand Hotel in Berlin. It's hustle and bustle as staff and guests set about pleasing or being pleased. It takes some time to flesh out who is who and which are the main characters. Eventually we settle in to the lives of Baron Felix (John Barrymore), Grusinskaya (Greta Garbo), Flaemmchen (Joan Crawford), Otto Kringelein (Lionel Barrymore), and Preysing (Wallace Beery).The Baron (John Barrymore) is at the Grand Hotel to steal some pearls from the famous dancer Grusinskaya (Garbo) in order to get out of debt. Grusinskaya is in Berlin for a performance. Preysing (Beery) is there to hash out a major merger between his company and another. Flaemmchen (Flem for short) (Crawford) is there as a stenographer for Preysing. And Kringelein (Lionel Barrymore) is there to live out the rest of his days in style as he recently found out that he's terminally ill.All of their stories intersect at this hotel with love, lust, merriment, treachery, and deceit. The Baron is the main character and is genuinely lovable. Everyone he meets falls in love with him or wants to befriend him which makes doing what he has to do difficult. The Baron has a conscience after all."Grand Hotel" has the style and atmosphere that makes it timeless. It could be made in any era and be just as relevant and enjoyable.2.49 on Amazon Prime.
Reviewed by ryangilmer007 8 / 10

good now, great then

What was a great movie in 1932 is still a good movie in 1999. In the Grandest Hotel of them all as "People come, people go. (but) Nothing ever happens." This is a story of a day at the hotel. Nothing out of the ordinary occurs, except lots of drinking, gambling, a love triangle, .... This film is one of the last big-budget "studio" Hollywood movies from its era (20's-30's) and is frequently studied for both this aspect and its photographic techniques (like the revolving doorway). The two hours is well worth it. Lionel Barrymore's performance is also really memorable.
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