The Man Behind the Mask

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Man Behind the Mask

| image = "The_Man_Behind_the_Mask"(1936).jpg

| caption = U.S. campaign book

| director = Michael Powell

| producer = Joe Rock

| writer = {{ubl|Jack Byrd (adaptation)|Syd Courtenay|Stanley Haynes|Ian Hay (dialogue)}}

| based_on = {{based on|the novel The Chase of the Golden Plate|Jacques Futrelle}}

| narrator =

| starring = {{ubl|Hugh Williams|Jane Baxter|Maurice Schwartz}}

| music = Cyril Ray

| cinematography = Ernest Palmer

| editing = Sam Simmonds

| studio = Joe Rock Productions

| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

| released = {{film date|df=yes|1936|8|24}}

| runtime = 79 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| budget =

}}

The Man Behind the Mask is a 1936 British mystery film directed by Michael Powell and starring Hugh Williams, Jane Baxter, Ronald Ward, Maurice Schwartz, George Merritt, Henry Oscar and Peter Gawthorne.{{IMDb title|id=0027935|title=The Man Behind the Mask}} A man assaults and switches places with another at a masked ball, and then attempts a major theft – casting suspicion on the original man.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160306203048/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6afafabb The Man Behind the Mask] at the British Film Institute{{better source needed|reason=Help request: a live link can be searched for at https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert - if available, replace the archive URL with the live link. Or if none found, remove this 'better source needed' template. | date=October 2023}}

The Man Behind the Mask was produced by Joe Rock, for Joe Rock Productions. It was made at Rock Studios, Elstree.Wood p.91

The Man Behind the Mask was missing from the BFI National Archive, and was one of three Powell films included on the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" list of lost films.{{cite web |url=http://old.bfi.org.uk/nationalarchive/news/mostwanted/man-behind-the-mask.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803092435/http://old.bfi.org.uk/nationalarchive/news/mostwanted/man-behind-the-mask.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-08-03 |title=The Man Behind the Mask / BFI Most Wanted |publisher=British Film Institute}} It is the last of Powell's "quota quickies".

A print of the American release, titled Behind the Mask, has been found, but it is a cut version of the original UK film.{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1138848/index.html |title=Crown v. Stevens (1936) |publisher=BFI Screenonline |quote=His following assignment, The Man Behind The Mask (which does exist, but in a much truncated form with a private collector) was released only three weeks after Crown ...}}