The Glass Cage

 

The Glass Cage - 1954 | 59 mins | Mystery | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Montgomery Tully.
Producer: Anthony Hinds.
Script: Richard H. Landau. (from the novel The Outsiders by A.E. Martin)
Cinematography: Walter J. Harvey.
Film Editing: James Needs.
Art Direction: J. Edler Wills.
Sound Department: H.C. Pearson.
Original Music: Leonard Salzedo.

The Cast

John Ireland - Pel
Honor Blackman - Jenny
Geoffrey Keen - Stanton
Eric Pohlmann - Sapolio
Sidney James - Tony Lewis
Liam Redmond - Lindley
Sydney Tafler - Rorke

Plot Synopsis

Fragmented B-thriller. Murders at a fairground on a London bombsite centre on Sapolio (Eric Pohlmann), ‘world champion starving man’, whose next fast is to be staged there in a glass cage. The third victim is Sapolio himself and showman Pel (John Ireland) suggests he be left ‘asleep’ in his cage to entrap the murderer.