Behind the Mask (1932)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1932
Running Times: 68 mins
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Columbia Pictures Corporation
Producer: Harry Cohn (uncredited)

SCRIPT
Script / Story: In the Secret Service by Jo Swerling

DIRECTION
Director: John Francis Dillon
Assistant Director: Edward Sloman (uncredited)

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Ted Tetzlaff

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Otis Garrett

SOUND
Sound Engineer: Glenn Rominger (uncredited)

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Dorothy Howell

CAST
Jack Holt (Jack Hart)
Constance Cummings (Julie Arnold)
Boris Karloff (Jim Henderson)
Claude King (Arnold)
Bertha Mann (Edwards)
Edward Van Sloan (Dr August Steiner / Dr Alec Munsell / Mr. X)
Willard Robertson (Captain E.J. Hawkes)
Thomas E. Jackson (Burke)
Jessie Arnold (nurse - uncredited)
Sherry Hall (secretary - uncredited)
Martha Mattox (maid - uncredited)
Louis Natheaux (graveyard keeper - uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook (hood - uncredited)

Federal agent Jack Hart goes undercover to break up a drug smuggling ring run by Mr. X, a mysterious and shadowy criminal mastermind. X is also involved with a hospital where surgery patients are murdered on the operating table and their coffins filled with narcotics and buried.

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia Pictures

1932
February
25: USA - theatrical release

A Slinking Fiend - Skulking Terror - Mad Murder!

The Man Who Dared
Secret Service - working title
Hinter der Maske - Austrian title

secret agents; drugs; drug smugglers; criminals; hospitals; surgery; coffins