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The Glass Cage

A Jagged Edge of Violence that Shatters the Screen with Suspense!

5.6(12)195559m2

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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English
  • carnival
  • film noir
  • murder
  • b movie
  • sideshow
  • promoter

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    • TheatricalNR15 Apr 1955

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The Glass Cage was released on 15 April 1955.

Audience reviews

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    John Chard

    11/13/2019

    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 Sydney Tafler. Music is by Leonard Salzedo and cinematography by Walter Harvey. Pel Pelham's carnival is in town and…

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    CinemaSerf

    4/4/2022

    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 Ireland) who has promoted this affair - and who hasn't two pennies to rub together - is initially a police suspect but a…

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