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Behind the Mask (Original title)The Pack (Alternative title)
Date: 24 November 1958 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst

Synopsis: Clinical melodrama, pivoting on a big hospital, concerning a young doctor whose professional life is troubled by divided loyalties. From the novel - 'The PACK' by John Rowan Wilson

Genres:
Medical drama, Melodrama
Credits (25)
Production Company: G.W. Films, Producer: Sergei Nolbandov, Producer: Josef Somlo, Production Manager: R.L.M. Davidson, Assistant Director (1st): Peter Bolton, Assistant Director (2nd): Colin Brewer, Continuity: Yvonne Axworthy, Casting Director: Thelma Graves, Script: John Hunter, Original novel: John Rowan Wilson, Photography: Robert Krasker, Camera Operator: John Harris, Editor: Alan Morrison, Production Designer: William Kellner, Costume Designer: Cynthia Tingey, Wardrobe: Barbara Gilette, Wardrobe: Bernard Brien, Make-up: Michael Morris, Hairdressing: Eileen Warwick, Music: Geoffrey Wright, Conductor: Muir Mathieson, Sound Recording: A.G. Ambler, Sound: John Cox, Dubbing Editor: Peter Musgrave
Cast (18)
Michael Redgrave (Sir Arthur Benson Gray), Tony Britton (Philip Selwood), Carl Möhner (Dr. Carl Romek), Niall MacGinnis (Neil Isherwood), Ian Bannen (Alan Crabtree), Brenda Bruce (Elizabeth Fallon), Lionel Jeffries (Walter Froy), Miles Malleson (Sir Oswald Pettiford), John Welsh (Colonel Langley), Vanessa Redgrave (Pamela Benson Gray), Ann Firbank (Mrs. Judson), John Gale (John Greenwood), Jack Hedley (Dr. Galbraith), Hugh Miller (Examiner at RCS), Mary Skinner (Theatre Sister), Margaret Tyzack (Night Sister), Victor Spinetti, Graham Curnow ([])