
Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he missed the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls. He ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats Kringelein, one of his company's lowly bookkeepers but it is the terminally ill Kringelein who holds all the ... (Full plot summary below)
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Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he missed the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls. He ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats Kringelein, one of his company's lowly bookkeepers but it is the terminally ill Kringelein who holds all the cards in the end. Meanwhile, the Baron also steals the heart of Preysing's mistress, Flaemmchen, but she doesn't end up with either one of them in the end...
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| Matt's Movie ReviewsMatt EasterbrookLess a movie than a series of vignettes starring some of the greatest names Hollywood and the stage have ever produced. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeIt's still the best such contrivance -- and I say that despite the fact that it won the Best Picture Oscar that year when at least four other nominated titles were superior. |
| eFilmCritic.comDavid CorneliusIt's a Hollywood legend, a big, brassy melodrama overflowing with top stars. |
| New York Daily NewsIrene ThirerEach and every performer in the screened "Grand Hotel" does a remarkable piece of work. To us, Garbo is the supreme of magnificence. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn JohansonIt's all very silly, the ultimate in Depression-era escapism: a piece of Hollywood magic that's impossibly romantic filled with people who are impossibly elegant, bantering and wisecracking constantly. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonGrand Hotel was the first Garbo film I ever saw, and she enchanted me effortlessly, despite the presence of the rest of the powerful ensemble cast. |
| Tim Dirks' The Greatest FilmsTim DirksGrand Hotel (1932) is a classic masterpiece and all-star epic with high-powered stars of the early 1930s. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyMGM at its glossiest and most melodramatic, with a an all-star cast that includes Garbo, John and Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford, and Lewis Stone--the kind of pictures they don't make anymore. |
| VarietyAlfred Rushford GreasonA commercial picture of high box office potential, first by assembling the most impressive aggregation so far of strictly Bradstreet screen names, and then by filming the play practically unaltered in form. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenHow thoroughly does Joan Crawford own Grand Hotel? She makes Greta Garbo superfluous. |