The Man Behind the Mask

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The Man Behind the Mask

U.S. campaign book
Directed by Michael Powell
Produced by Joe Rock
Written by Jack Byrd (adaptation)
Syd Courtenay
Stanley Haynes
Ian Hay (dialogue)
Based on the novel The Chase of the Golden Plate
by Jacques Futrelle
Starring Hugh Williams
Jane Baxter
Maurice Schwartz
Music by Cyril Ray
Cinematography Ernest Palmer
Edited by Sam Simmonds
Production
company
Joe Rock Productions
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates
  • 24 August 1936 (1936-08-24)
Running time
 79 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

The Man Behind the Mask is a 1936 British mystery film directed by Michael Powell and starring Hugh Williams, Jane Baxter, Ronald Ward, Maurice Schwartz, George Merritt, Henry Oscar and Peter Gawthorne.[1] A man assaults and switches places with another at a masked ball, and then attempts a major theft – casting suspicion on the original man.[2]

The Man Behind the Mask was produced by Joe Rock, for Joe Rock Productions. It was made at one of the Elstree Studios.[3]

The Man Behind the Mask was missing from the BFI National Archive, and was one of three Powell films included on the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" list of lost films.[4] It is the last of Powell's "quota quickies".[4]

A print of the American release, titled Behind the Mask, has been found, but it is a cut version of the original UK film.[5]

Cast

References

  1. ↑ The Man Behind the Mask at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ↑ The Man Behind the Mask at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database
  3. ↑ Wood p.91
  4. 1 2 "The Man Behind the Mask / BFI Most Wanted". British Film Institute.
  5. ↑ "Crown v. Stevens (1936)". BFI Screenonline. His following assignment, The Man Behind The Mask (which does exist, but in a much truncated form with a private collector) was released only three weeks after Crown ...

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