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The Glass Palace

The Glass Palace

1963TV Episode⏱️ 1h 0m
Drama

There's trouble afoot when ice skater Vince Gallard (Ricardo Montalban) begins to slip: a coming ice show depends on him.

Director
Lawrence Dobkin
Writers
N/A
Stars
Fred Astaire, Joanna Barnes, Wallace Ford
Release Date
January 17, 1963
Language
English
💬 1
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire
as Self - Host
Joanna Barnes
Joanna Barnes
as Aggie McCrae
Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford
as Mike Fallon
Anne Francis
Anne Francis
as Terry Gallard
Don Hanmer
Don Hanmer
as Lloyd Gary
Ricardo Montalban
Ricardo Montalban
as Vince Gallard
Chester Morris
Chester Morris
as Charles Richardson
Ed Nelson
Ed Nelson
as Brick Avery
Paul Newlan
Paul Newlan
as Max Gifford

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Filming Location
Long Beach, California, USA
Production
Avasta Productions

🏷️ Keywords

mexican actor playing american charactereye diseaseice skating

🎯 Categories

Drama

⭐ Featured Review

Glass Palace
by searchanddestroy-12016-05-31

"One more example of a story which should have been made for the big screen, for a ninety minutes length, instead of an ordinary sixty minutes episode. This story is about ice skating shows with Ricardo Montalban and Ann Francis as the main leads, the contenders. You already have seen movies about this sport, but mainly TV movies in the eighties or late seventies. I don't speak of the Sonja Henie's films, during the forties, for Twentieth Century Fox company. Back to this episode, Ricardo Montalban gives an outstanding performance as an ice skater suffering of an eyes disease, resulti..."

💡 Did You Know?

Failed TV pilot. In the book Anne Francis: The Life and Career, it claims the existing print has no on-screen episode name but that newspaper articles refer to it as "Rhe Quick and the Dead".

📖 Synopsis

There's trouble afoot when ice skater Vince Gallard (Ricardo Montalban) begins to slip: a coming ice show depends on him.