[go: up one dir, main page]

    Calendario de lanzamientosTop 250 películasPelículas más popularesBuscar películas por géneroTaquilla superiorHorarios y entradasNoticias sobre películasPelículas de la India destacadas
    Programas de televisión y streamingLas 250 mejores seriesSeries más popularesBuscar series por géneroNoticias de TV
    Qué verÚltimos trailersTítulos originales de IMDbSelecciones de IMDbDestacado de IMDbGuía de entretenimiento familiarPodcasts de IMDb
    OscarsEmmysSan Diego Comic-ConSummer Watch GuideToronto Int'l Film FestivalPremios STARmeterInformación sobre premiosInformación sobre festivalesTodos los eventos
    Nacidos un día como hoyCelebridades más popularesNoticias sobre celebridades
    Centro de ayudaZona de colaboradoresEncuestas
Para profesionales de la industria
  • Idioma
  • Totalmente compatible
  • English (United States)
    Parcialmente compatible
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Lista de visualización
Iniciar sesión
  • Totalmente compatible
  • English (United States)
    Parcialmente compatible
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Usar app
  • Elenco y equipo
  • Opiniones de usuarios
  • Trivia
IMDbPro

Behind the Mask

  • 1932
  • Approved
  • 1h 8min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
5.9/10
476
TU CALIFICACIÓN
Constance Cummings and Jack Holt in Behind the Mask (1932)
CrimenMisterioRomanceTerror

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaAn undercover Federal officer serving time in prison fakes his escape in order to infiltrate a heroin smuggling ring.An undercover Federal officer serving time in prison fakes his escape in order to infiltrate a heroin smuggling ring.An undercover Federal officer serving time in prison fakes his escape in order to infiltrate a heroin smuggling ring.

  • Dirección
    • John Francis Dillon
  • Guionista
    • Jo Swerling
  • Elenco
    • Jack Holt
    • Constance Cummings
    • Boris Karloff
  • Ver la información de producción en IMDbPro
  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    5.9/10
    476
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • John Francis Dillon
    • Guionista
      • Jo Swerling
    • Elenco
      • Jack Holt
      • Constance Cummings
      • Boris Karloff
    • 20Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 23Opiniones de los críticos
  • Ver la información de producción en IMDbPro
  • Ver la información de producción en IMDbPro
  • Fotos49

    Ver el cartel
    Ver el cartel
    Ver el cartel
    Ver el cartel
    Ver el cartel
    Ver el cartel
    Ver el cartel
    + 42
    Ver el cartel

    Elenco principal14

    Editar
    Jack Holt
    Jack Holt
    • Jack Hart aka Quinn
    Constance Cummings
    Constance Cummings
    • Julie Arnold
    Boris Karloff
    Boris Karloff
    • Jim Henderson
    Claude King
    Claude King
    • Arnold
    Bertha Mann
    Bertha Mann
    • Nurse Edwards
    Edward Van Sloan
    Edward Van Sloan
    • Dr. August Steiner…
    Willard Robertson
    Willard Robertson
    • Capt. E.J. Hawkes
    Thomas E. Jackson
    Thomas E. Jackson
    • Agent Burke
    • (as Tommy Jackson)
    Jessie Arnold
    Jessie Arnold
    • Eastland Hospital Nurse
    • (sin créditos)
    Clarence Burton
    Clarence Burton
    • Agent Gorman
    • (sin créditos)
    Rodney Hildebrand
    • Cell Block Guard
    • (sin créditos)
    Martha Mattox
    Martha Mattox
    • Hotel Ansonia Maid
    • (sin créditos)
    Louis Natheaux
    Louis Natheaux
    • Arnold's Secretary
    • (sin créditos)
    • …
    Harry Tenbrook
    Harry Tenbrook
    • Man in Black
    • (sin créditos)
    • …
    • Dirección
      • John Francis Dillon
    • Guionista
      • Jo Swerling
    • Todo el elenco y el equipo
    • Producción, taquilla y más en IMDbPro

    Opiniones de usuarios20

    5.9476
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10

    Opiniones destacadas

    6mackjay2

    Very watchable minor crime thriller.

    Were it not for the presence of Boris Karloff, here in a supporting role, we may not have such a high quality home video edition of this movie. Enjoyable as it is in many ways, BEHIND THE MASK is also a good example of how much difference a talented director can make. Compare the films of James Whale, for example, from the same period and see how much better several scenes here might have been. On the plus side, there is the cinematography of Ted Tetzlaff, creating moody scenes in heavy rain that grab a viewer's attention from the start. So the film looks mostly great, but in the acting department it's merely adequate. No one in the cast is terrible, and we do have Edward Van Sloane clearly enjoying himself as an evil scientist. But even Karloff is a slight disappointment. It's fun to see him in modern dress, playing a hired killer, but it's not one of his really notable appearances. Still, the plot is engaging and there is more action than one might expect from such a modest production.
    7csteidler

    Undercover agent takes on smugglers

    Hard boiled Jack Holt escapes from prison. His gangster contacts set him up with a job as chauffeur at the large estate of one of their associates who is getting a little nervous. Holt's job is to keep an eye on said associate - whose attractive daughter Constance Cummings already knows there is something fishy going on.

    It doesn't take long before we discover that Holt is not a real crook but an undercover agent hoping to track down the smugglers' big boss, the mysterious Mr. X.

    Boris Karloff is fun as the loyal but not too bright henchman who does Mr. X's dirty jobs. Edward Van Sloan is a bit creepy as a suspicious-looking doctor running a very shady hospital. There's also a nurse named Bertha Mann at the house who spies on the family and phones in reports which she leaves on a very cool answering machine in an unknown location.

    Constance Cummings has a good role as the daughter who is not content to sit back and let Holt chase the bad guys. Cummings and Holt are an effective pair of heroes in this fast-paced crime drama that offers few surprises but does feature some suspenseful moments, including an exciting climactic scene in the hospital.
    searchanddestroy-1

    Underrated film about an undercover cop story

    I forgot the director John Francis Dillon, he is lost now in moviegoers memory I guess, and I think it is a shame after watching this movie. This is not astounding but very worth the watch, with a good story, solid, unusual for the period. Pre Code film, it is authorized to predict many more things than one decade later. Yes, this is definitely an interesting little film from the thirties, early thirties, where it remains many more movies to find out. I am still amazed by this topic. Boris Karloff also shines in this non horror feature, and his role is rather important in this crime topic. He steals the place to Jack Holt.
    7DoctorOod

    Come for the Karloff... Stay for the van Sloane!

    This is a nice, efficient mystery/thriller, enlivened by the presence of Boris Karloff and Edward van Sloane. Karloff is fine in this non-monster role, as a cocky, bowler wearing, cigar smoking crook. His presence (in retrospect) also provides a cachet of horror to the mix. This movie, after all, was shooting just as Frankenstein was released. The rest of the cast is very good and the direction is no-nonsense, straight ahead story telling (if a bit improbable). Things keep moving so quickly you don't really have time to question the plot's realism. But the real kick and revelation is Edward van Sloane in a dual/triple role -- in particular, his portrayal of Dr. Steiner, with his crackling electronic gear, his google-eye specs, his trilling foreign accent -- apparently having the time of his life as an sinister, conniving doctor masterminding a dope ring. His sadistic banter during the film's climax is convincing enough to rank with the best of Lionel Atwill's or Bela Lugosi's incarnations of mad doctors at the height of their madness.
    6Coventry

    Ambitious '30s mystery/thriller

    Ah, there's nothing like a good old-fashioned creepy & atmospheric horror tale from the early nineteen-thirties starring the almighty Boris Karloff! Be forewarned, however, that this "Behind the Mask" is not really a horror movie and that Karloff in fact only plays a supportive character – albeit quite a menacing one. Does that mean that the film isn't worth checking out? Nope, not at all, because "Behind the Mask" definitely does contain quite a few sinister twists and details in its overall very ambitious and compelling crime/mystery screenplay. A whole bunch of elite federal agents are trying to unravel a large-scaled drug smuggling network led by the nefarious Mr. X. Special agent Jack Hart takes the identity of small thug Quinn and goes undercover in a state prison where he meets Jim Henderson (Karloff); one of Mr. X's principal henchmen. The organization of Mr. X is most certainly evil, as the criminal mastermind also runs an unorthodox clinic where the patients are murdered and their coffins stuffed with narcotics. The script from the hand of Jo Swerling – also the writer of Hitchcock's "Lifeboat" – superficially seems extremely ambitious, but rather many elements are nevertheless tacky (like the forced love-story between the secret agent and one of the minions' daughter) and/or predictable (for example the identity of Mr. X is not really that secretive). Top-billed stars Boris Karloff and Jack Holt are decent enough, but the show is stolen by Edward Van Sloan in a fiendish double role, and by Bertha Mann! She depicts a creepy maid who's strategically put in the house of Dr. X's unreliable collaborators. She closely observes everyone in the house and reports to her employer via a radio installation in her room.

    Más como esto

    Black Moon
    5.9
    Black Moon
    El paraiso maldito
    5.8
    El paraiso maldito
    Air Hawks
    5.9
    Air Hawks
    Poder Satánico
    5.1
    Poder Satánico
    La gitana loba
    5.3
    La gitana loba
    La isla de los resucitados
    6.5
    La isla de los resucitados
    Behind the Mask
    4.9
    Behind the Mask
    The Man Who Changed His Mind
    6.6
    The Man Who Changed His Mind
    El mago de la muerte
    6.1
    El mago de la muerte
    La venganza del ahorcado
    6.8
    La venganza del ahorcado
    Mañana morirás
    6.2
    Mañana morirás
    El rayo invisible
    6.5
    El rayo invisible

    Argumento

    Editar

    ¿Sabías que…?

    Editar
    • Trivia
      Part of the SON OF SHOCK package of 20 titles released to television in 1958, which followed the original SHOCK THEATER release of 52 features one year earlier. This was also the first of 11 Columbia titles, the other 61 all being Universals.
    • Errores
      A dummy, thrown from the airplane by the pilot, instead of the pilot himself, to fool the people in the boat, would not be able to pull the ripcord on the parachute at the right time, to open it up.
    • Citas

      Mr. X: [as Hart is restrained on the operating table] I am just going to cut away your shirt. You don't mind? The pain when I am going through the layers of skin will not be unendurable. It is only when I am able to cut on the inside that you will realize you are having... an experience.

      [He cackles under his surgical mask]

      Mr. X: Wasn't it Nietzsche, who said that unendurable pain merges into ecstasy?

    • Conexiones
      Edited from The Criminal Code (1931)

    Selecciones populares

    Inicia sesión para calificar y agrega a la lista de videos para obtener recomendaciones personalizadas
    Iniciar sesión

    Detalles

    Editar
    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 25 de febrero de 1932 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Idioma
      • Inglés
    • También se conoce como
      • Secret Service
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Columbia/Sunset Gower Studios - 1438 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos(operating room)
    • Productora
      • Columbia Pictures
    • Ver más créditos de la compañía en IMDbPro

    Especificaciones técnicas

    Editar
    • Tiempo de ejecución
      • 1h 8min(68 min)
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.37 : 1

    Contribuir a esta página

    Sugiere una edición o agrega el contenido que falta
    • Obtén más información acerca de cómo contribuir
    Editar página

    Más para explorar

    Visto recientemente

    Habilita las cookies del navegador para usar esta función. Más información.
    Obtener la aplicación de IMDb
    Inicia sesión para obtener más accesoInicia sesión para obtener más acceso
    Sigue a IMDb en las redes sociales
    Obtener la aplicación de IMDb
    Para Android e iOS
    Obtener la aplicación de IMDb
    • Ayuda
    • Índice del sitio
    • IMDbPro
    • Box Office Mojo
    • Licencia de datos de IMDb
    • Sala de prensa
    • Publicidad
    • Trabaja con nosotros
    • Condiciones de uso
    • Política de privacidad
    • Your Ads Privacy Choices
    IMDb, una compañía de Amazon

    © 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.