The Man Behind the Mask
A young couple attends a masked ball before their planned secret elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is abducted and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
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"Lord Peter Gawthorne has just bought an antique relic for his collection. Little does he know that others want it, and are willing to kill for it. This means that his daughter, Jane Baxter, is kidnapped. As she is supposed to marry Hugh Williams, this involves him. Especially as the police are looking for him as a murderer. There are more than twenty minutes missing from this movie. This, no doubt, increases its melodramatic air. It certainly makes it somewhat incoherent, despite an interesting cast that includes Donald Calthorp and Maurice Schwartz. Add in the fact that this was directed by ..."
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The only available prints of this film are taken from an edited (by about 20 minutes) British reissue print, retitled "Behind the Mask" from 1944. No copies of the complete, original version are known to exist.
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A young couple attends a masked ball before their planned secret elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is abducted and held hostage by a crazed attacker.