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The Glass Cage

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Original title

The Glass Cageaka

AKA

Glass Tomb

Year

1955

Running time

59 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Montgomery Tully

Screenwriter

Richard H. Landau. Novel: A.E. Martin

Cast

Music

Leonard Salzedo

Cinematography

Walter J. Harvey (B&W)

Producer

Hammer Productions, Lippert Films

Genre

Mystery. Film noir | Crime. Half-length Film

Synopsis

'Pel' Pelham is a veteran carnival barker who's happily married and desperately wants a good education for his young son. With money borrowed from bookie Tony Lewis, he persuades Sapolio, a professional "starving man," to attempt to break his own world's record of 65 days without food. Pel, a natural promoter, persuades a real estate broker to donate land for the show, which will feature Sapolio inside a glass cage housed in a tent to be ogled by the curious paying public. Prior to the start of the ordeal, Sapolio and his wife throw a party in their flat. When a girl in an upstairs apartment is murdered, suspicion falls on Pel and Tony Lewis, the girl's former boyfriend. Sapolio unknowingly has glimpsed the murderer, but initially cannot remember what he looked like. That makes "The Starving Man" a target for the real killer.

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The Glass Cage

1955

Montgomery Tully