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Behind the Mask DVD, 1958

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A 1950s hospital drama that sees Michael Redgrave star alongside daughter Vanessa in her debut feature. Seeing them share the screen is pure magic, says Alexander Ballinger

 

Newly qualified surgeon Philip Selwood (Tony Britton) has it all: he’s engaged to Pamela (Vanessa Redgrave) and has just landed a top job at the hospital run by her father (Michael Redgrave). Young Philip is pretty handy with scalpel and sutures, as seen in two nerve-racking operations (shot in unflinching detail by cinematographer, Robert Krasker), but operating within the murky world of hospital politics is far less straightforward as Philip’s divided loyalties to fiancée, father-in-law and a troubled colleague (Carl Möhner) take him to the brink of professional and personal ruin.

This is meaty medical drama and it provides a fascinating flipside to the comic antics of 1950s hospital-set films like the Dirk Bogarde vehicles Doctor in the House/at Large/at Sea and Carry On Nurse. This is a must-see film for any fan of British cinema as it’s the movie debut of Vanessa Redgrave, whose performance has an ethereal quality akin to that of Grace Kelly. Also, it’s the only film in which she shared, if only fleetingly, screen space with her father, Michael Redgrave: pure screen magic.

 

Alexander Ballinger on 8th December 2011
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Film Information

Director - Brian Desmond Hurst

Produced - 1958

Main Language - English

Countries & Regions - British Film

Cast - Ian Bannen, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Redgrave, Lionel Jeffries, Niall MacGinnis, Tony Britton, Miles Malleson

 

 

DVD Details

Certificate: PG Publisher: STUDC Region: 2
Length: 94 mins Cat No: OPTD2347  
Format: DVD Colour  

 

 

Film Description

A 1950s hospital drama starring Michael Redgrave, as well as his daughter, Vanessa, in her debut feature, playing the daughter of chief surgeon Sir Arthur Benson Gray (Redgrave) who is at loggerheads with the authorities over how the hospital is being run.

 

 

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