The Glass Cage
JAGGED EDGE OF VIOLENCE!...THAT SHATTERS THE SCREEN WITH SUSPENSE!
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!
- 5.4
- 1955
- Released
- 0h 59m
John Ireland
Pel Pelham
Honor Blackman
Jenny Pelham
Geoffrey Keen
Harry Stanton
Eric Pohlmann
Henri Sapolio
Sidney James
Tony Lewis
Liam Redmond
Inspector Lindley
Tonia Bern
Rena Maroni
Sydney Tafler
Rorke
Ferdy Mayne
BertieValerie Vernon
BellaAnthony Richmond
Peter Pelham
Nora Gordon
Marie Sapolio
Sam Kydd
George
Bernard Bresslaw
Ivan The TerribleStan Little
Mickelwitz
Arthur Howard
Rutland
Frank Williams
SpectatorReleased
en
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Reviews
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 Ireland) who has promoted this affair - and who hasn't two pennies to rub together - is initially a
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 Sydney Tafler. Music is by Leonard Salzedo and cinematography by Walter Harvey. Pel Pelham's car