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Behind the Mask

1958

Action / Drama

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Vanessa Redgrave Photo
Vanessa Redgrave as Pamela Benson Gray
Judy Parfitt Photo
Judy Parfitt as Nurse
William Roache Photo
William Roache as Young doctor
Michael Redgrave Photo
Michael Redgrave as Sir Arthur Benson Gray
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910.99 MB
1204*720
English 2.0
NR
24 fps
1 hr 39 min
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1.65 GB
1792*1072
English 2.0
NR
24 fps
1 hr 39 min
P/S 1 / 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by malcolmgsw5 / 10

Talky medical drama

Medical films were in vogue when this film was made in 1958.the doctor films were in full swing.carry on nurse would shortly go before the cameras.emergency ward 10 was popular on itv.most of these titles were very entertaining which is more than can be said for this film.It concerns itself more with hospital politics than treatment.Tony Britton makes a mistake tending to a drug addict doctor rather than a patient who as a result dies.Britton agrees to carry the can in a rather unlikely scenario particularly since he had already been complicit in the schemes of Michael Redgarve as his future son in law.Britton is by chance engaged to his daughter played by Vanessa Redgarve in her first role.She is terribly aloof and about as appealing as a plate of cold mashed potatoes.the film is far too talky and overlong.Some entertaining character actors are unable to raise the tempo.

Reviewed by writers_reign5 / 10

Minor Surgery

Michael Redgrave's name on the opening credits is usually as good as money in the bank but even class acts are entitled to an off day and this is a doozy. It is, of course, possible he was worrying about real life daughter Vanessa making her debut in front of the camera in this extremely ho hum entry in which virtually the entire cast - Tony Britton, Niall McGuiness, Miles Malleson, Lionel Jeffries - either walk though their roles and/or phone them in. The plot would be an embarrassment on Crossroads and needs only Paul Carpenter and Arthur Mullard to attain mediocrity. Even major surgery can't save this piece of cheese.

Reviewed by wilvram6 / 10

Surgical Theatre

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.

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