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Behind the Mask (1958 film)

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Behind the Mask
Promotional poster
Directed byBrian Desmond Hurst
Written byJohn Hunter
John Rowan Wilson
Produced bySergei Nolbandov
Josef Somlo
StarringMichael Redgrave
Tony Britton
Carl Möhner
Niall MacGinnis
Vanessa Redgrave
CinematographyRobert Krasker
Edited byAllan Morrison
Music byGeoffrey Wright
Production
company
GW Films
Distributed byBritish Lion Films
Release date
  • 24 October 1958 (1958-10-24) (London)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£164,162[1]

Behind the Mask (also known as The Pack) is a 1958 British drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Michael Redgrave, Ian Bannen and Lionel Jeffries.[2] It portrays the life of a surgeon in a busy hospital.

Redgrave's daughter, Vanessa Redgrave, made her film debut in this movie.[3]

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Plot

Sir Arthur Benson Gray is senior surgeon at Graftondale Hospital. He appoints newly-qualified Philip Selwood, who is in love with his daughter, as Registrar. Selwood befriends anaesthetist Carl Romek, who is secretly a drug-addict. One night when Selwood is with Romek, once of Selwood's patients dies. Selwood takes full responsibility and resigns. Sir Arthur, gravely ill, persuades him accept the hospital's offer of reinstatement, which he does, vowing to uphold the standards set by Sir Arthur.

Cast

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The first thirty minutes ... outline the character of the hospital staff and the three doctors with economy and force. But after that the script gives way to synthetic personal issues ... while the implications of the plot lack any moral clarity or logic. Sir Arthur, standing for tradition and intended to engage our sympathy, is shown as reactionary and incompetent; the ambitious Isherwood, of whose unprincipled determination to win we are clearly meant to disapprove, is depicted as anxious to develop research and a good surgeon. By refusing to face honestly the moral issues raised, this earnest and sincere tribute to hospital surgeons fails to make its point, much less to explore the deeper questions of power corruption at which it hints."[4]

The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 2/5 stars, writing: "Much of this potboiling drama about feuding surgeons, put-upon housemen and devoted nurses is taken up with a dispute between Michael Redgrave and Niall MacGinnis over the management of their hospital. Director Brian Desmond Hurst seems unable to choose between realism and melodrama, leaving his actors unsure how to pitch their performances."[5]

British film critic Leslie Halliwell said: "Oddly titled social drama with interesting details but not much tension or conclusion."[6]

References

  1. ^ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 359
  2. ^ "Behind the Mask". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
  3. ^ "Vanessa Redgrave - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk.
  4. ^ "Behind the Mask". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 25 (288): 150. 1 January 1958 – via ProQuest.
  5. ^ Radio Times Guide to Films (18th ed.). London: Immediate Media Company. 2017. p. 282. ISBN 9780992936440.
  6. ^ Halliwell, Leslie (1989). Halliwell's Film Guide (7th ed.). London: Paladin. p. 88. ISBN 0586088946.

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