The Man Behind the Mask | |
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Directed by | Michael Powell |
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Based on | the novel The Chase of the Golden Plate by Jacques Futrelle |
Produced by | Joe Rock |
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Cinematography | Ernest Palmer |
Edited by | Sam Simmonds |
Music by | Cyril Ray |
Production company | Joe Rock Productions |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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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 Rock Studios, Elstree. [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]
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 ...