The Glass Cage

The Glass Cage

The Glass Cage

5.5/ 10

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1955

Release Year

59 min

Runtime

Crime

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!

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Keywords

carnival

film noir

murder

b movie

sideshow

promoter

Cast

John Ireland

John Ireland

Pel Pelham

Honor Blackman

Honor Blackman

Jenny Pelham

Geoffrey Keen

Geoffrey Keen

Harry Stanton

Eric Pohlmann

Eric Pohlmann

Henri Sapolio

Sidney James

Sidney James

Tony Lewis

Liam Redmond

Liam Redmond

Inspector Lindley

Tonia Bern

Rena Maroni

Sydney Tafler

Sydney Tafler

Rorke

Ferdy Mayne

Ferdy Mayne

Bertie

Valerie Vernon

Bella

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Reviews(2)

6.0avg rating

John Chard

John Chard

November 13, 2019

6

6/10

Pel 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…

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

April 4, 2022

6

6/10

Eric 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 …

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