- Country: UK
- Genres: Drama
- Release:
- Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
- Writers: John Rowan Wilson , John Hunter
- Language: English
- Stars: Michael Redgrave , Tony Britton , Carl Möhner , Niall MacGinnis (1913–1977) , Vanessa Redgrave , Ian Bannen , Brenda Bruce , Lionel Jeffries , Miles Malleson , John Welsh
- Runtime: 99 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Behind the Mask (United States of America) , Hinter der Maske , Por Detrás da Máscara (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Bag lægens maske (Denmark) , Behind the Mask , Hinter der Maske , A maszk mögött (Hungary) , Rivaler i vitt (Sweden) , Behind the Mask (United Kingdom)
- Plot: Philip Selwood has just passed his final exams for the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and has immediately secured a job as registrar at a teaching hospital under well respected Sir Arthur Benson-Gray, who happens to be his imminent father-in-law in Sir Arthur's daughter, Pamela Benson-Gray, having accepted his proposal of marriage. In the job offer for which Philip had to "compete", Sir Arthur asks Philip to postpone announcement of the engagement in not wanting to appear that the offer is a case of nepotism, which it is in part in some employment candidates rightly believing it's not what you know, but who you know. One of the employment candidates with that belief is native Pole Carl Romek, who, in having an Eastern European accent on top of everything else, has been passed over for job after job, he applying for the other open position at the hospital of anesthetist. Romek is surprised to get the job, although he is unaware that he only got it in a power play between Sir Arthur and his chief rival surgeon, Neil Isherwood. Philip demonstrates that he was the correct choice not only in his knowledge and skill as a surgeon, but in his humanistic approach to the patients, while Carl may be another matter in the unknown heavy baggage which he brings affects how he does his job. In Philip wanting to help Carl in being his friend, Philip risks his own position at the hospital and threatens his relationships with both the Benson-Grays in the process.
- IMDB:tt0051405
Behind the Mask Cast · · · ALL
Brian Desmond Hurst
Director
Michael Redgrave
Sir Arthur Benson-Gray
Tony Britton
Philip Selwood
Carl Möhner
Carl Romek
Niall MacGinnis
(1913–1977)
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
Jack Hedley
Dr. Galbraith
Hugh Miller
Examiner
Margaret Tyzack
Night Sister
William Roache
Young Doctor (uncredited)