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Behind the Mask (1932 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Behind the Mask' is a 1932 American pre-code crime horror film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Jack Holt, Boris Karloff and Edward Van Sloan.
Plot
A federal agent (Holt) goes undercover to infiltrate a drug smuggling operation headed by a mysterious Mr. X (Van Sloan), a criminal mastermind whose identity is unknown even to his henchmen. Mr. X is also running a bogus hospital where victims are killed on the operating table, and their coffins stuffed with narcotics. The drug-filled coffins are then buried in a cemetery.
Cast
* Jack Holt as Jack Hart aka Quinn
* Constance Cummings as Julie Arnold
* Boris Karloff as Jim Henderson
* Claude King as Arnold
* Bertha Mann as Nurse Edwards
* Edward Van Sloan as Dr. August Steiner / Dr. Alec Munsell / Mr. X
* Willard Robertson as Capt. E.J. Hawkes
* Thomas E. Jackson as Agent Burke (as Tommy Jackson)
See also
* List of American films of 1932
* Boris Karloff filmography
References
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