The daughter of a wealthy art dealer is blackmailed, and then his former wife is found dead in a Paris hotel.One of the four suspects turns out to be actually a police detective.
If you have a soft spot for grainy, old-fashioned murder mysteries that smell like mothballs and cigarettes, A Strange Guest might hit the spot. If you prefer your thrillers to have, you know, actual momentum, you might want to skip this one. It’s for the folks who like to count the suspects on their fingers and feel s...
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Gerhard Lamprecht
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"If you have a soft spot for grainy, old-fashioned murder mysteries that smell like mothballs and cigarettes, A Strange Guest might hit the spot. If you prefer your thrillers to have, you know, actual momentum, you might want to skip this one. It’s for the folks who like to count the suspects on their fingers and feel smart when they guess the detective early. The whole thing kicks off with a blackmail plot that feels a bit thin. Then someone turns up dead in Paris, and suddenly the movie tries ..."
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