Newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death of their patient through neglect.
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Title: Behind the Mask (1958)
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| Michael Redgrave | ... | Sir Arthur Benson Gray | |
| Tony Britton | ... | Philip Selwood | |
| Carl Möhner | ... | Dr. Carl Romek | |
| Niall MacGinnis | ... | Neil Isherwood | |
| Vanessa Redgrave | ... | Pamela Benson Gray | |
| Ian Bannen | ... | Alan Crabtree | |
| Brenda Bruce | ... | Elizabeth Fallon | |
| Lionel Jeffries | ... | Walter Froy | |
| Miles Malleson | ... | Sir Oswald Pettiford | |
| John Welsh | ... | Colonel Langley | |
| Ann Firbank | ... | Mrs. Judson | |
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John Gale | ... | Mr. John Greenwood |
| Jack Hedley | ... | Dr. Galbraith | |
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Hugh Miller | ... | Examiner |
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Mary Skinner | ... | Theatre Sister |
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Newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death of their patient through neglect.
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Sir Arthur Benson Gray: I'm quite sure Isherwood will call it that. All that doesn't matter now. In fact, let's drink to it. To the dynasty!
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Opening credits: All characters and incidents are imaginary and any similarity to incidents or persons living or dead is purely coincidental. See more »Quotes
Pamela Benson Gray: Aren't you afraid they'll accuse you of wanting to found a dynasty?Sir Arthur Benson Gray: I'm quite sure Isherwood will call it that. All that doesn't matter now. In fact, let's drink to it. To the dynasty!
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1960 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Hinter der Maske See more »Filming Locations:
Shepperton Studios, Studios Road, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UKCompany Credits
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A serious film with an appropriate cast that fails to live up to its initial promise. Tony Britton is a promising young surgeon who becomes engaged to the senior surgeon's daughter (the young Vanessa Redgrave giving a rather precious performance.) Retrospective interest is added by the manners of the period, not least hospital staff who ceaselessly smoke everywhere with carefree abandon. Gradually though the story evolves into two strands, neither resolved particularly successfully. The first, Britton's involvement with a drug-addicted Polish colleague which lands him in serious trouble and in which he is then portrayed as becoming virtuous and altruistic to an improbable degree, is trite. The second, regarding the senior surgeon's deep concerns about his junior, played by the talented Niall MacGinnis (whom as well as being a first-rate character actor was also a qualified physician), is opaque as nothing is shown to justify his fears, though it looks as if we are intended to sympathise with them.