The Great Hotel Murder

{{short description|1935 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Great Hotel Murder

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| director = Eugene Forde

| producer = John Stone

| based_on = Recipe for Murder by Vincent Starrett

| writer =Arthur Kober

| starring = Edmund Lowe
Victor McLaglen
Rosemary Ames
Mary Carlisle

| music = Samuel Kaylin

| cinematography = Ernest Palmer

| editing =

| studio = Fox Film Corporation

| distributor = Fox Film Corporation

| released = {{Film date|1935|02|27}}

| runtime = 70 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

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The Great Hotel Murder is a 1935 American mystery film directed by Eugene Forde and starring Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Rosemary Ames and Mary Carlisle. It is based on Recipe for Murder a 1934 story by Vincent Starrett.

The film stars Lowe and McLaglen as rival sleuths, with supporting roles for Lynn Bari and Madge Bellamy.Halliwell's Film Guide 1987 p.424 "The Great Hotel Murder US 193[4] 70m bw Rival sleuths find the truth about a murder less important than being first to find it out.Peter A. Ruber The Last Bookman 1995- Page 64 "Vincent fulfilled his contract with The Great Hotel Murder, an exciting mystery featuring Riley Blackwood — amateur sleuth amateur sleuth and Chicago drama critic — but it lacked the finesse and subtlety of Mr. Garment. . for Murder, and to 20th Century-Fox for a perfectly ghastly film starring Edmund Lowe that was nothing like the book" It was one of a series of films featuring Lowe and McLaglen as friendly rivals dating back to their first pairing in the hit 1926 silent film What Price Glory?.

It was produced by Fox Film, shortly before the merger with Twentieth Century Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art director Duncan Cramer.