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1995
“A Jagged Edge of Violence that Shatters the Screen with Suspense!”
The Glass Cage (1955)
April 15, 195559mEN
5.7
13 votes
Overview
A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!
Director
Montgomery TullyWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
Hammer Film ProductionsLippert Films
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John Chard
6.0Pel Pelham Opening Soon With Starving Man Act. The Glass Tomb (AKA: The Glass Cage) is directed by Montgomery Tully and adapted to screenplay by Richard Landau from the story The Outsiders written by A. E. Martin. It stars John Ireland, Honor Blackman, Geoffrey Keen, Eric Pohlmann, Sid James and Sydney Tafler. Music is by Leonard Salzedo and cinematography by Walter Harvey. Pel Pelham's carnival is in town and the star attraction is Sapolio, a man prepared to be locked in a glass cage and starve himself for 70 days. But when a couple of murders occur at the carnival, the police become i…
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CinemaSerf
6.0Eric Pohlmann is "Sapolio", quite a large fellow who declares that he is going to have himself locked in a glass room for 70 days without food. Can he survive? Well it turns out, in this short thriller, that he might be a damn sight safer than some of those outside - as murder is afoot. "Pel" (John Ireland) who has promoted this affair - and who hasn't two pennies to rub together - is initially a police suspect but as the investigation narrows, it looks like only the man in the glass box might really know what happened! John Ireland is adequate in this hour-long film as is his on-screen wife H…
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