Masquerade (1965 film)

Masquerade
Film poster by Jack Rickard
Directed by	Basil Dearden
Produced by	Michael Relph
Written by	William Goldman Victor Canning (novel)
Starring	Cliff Robertson Jack Hawkins
Music by	Phillip Green
Cinematography	Otto Heller
Edited by	John D. Guthridge
Production company	Michael Relph Productions (as Novus Films Limited)
Distributed by	United Artists
Release dates	23 August 1965
Running time	102 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Masquerade is a 1965 British comedy thriller film directed by Basil Dearden based on the 1954 novel Castle Minerva by Victor Canning. It stars Cliff Robertson and Jack Hawkins^[1]and was filmed in Spain.

Synopsis

An Arab heir plots his own kidnapping in a desperate bid for peace in the Middle East.

Cast

Cliff Robertson as David Frazer
Jack Hawkins as Colonel Drexel
Marisa Mell as Sophie
Michel Piccoli as George Sarrassin
Bill Fraser as Dunwoody
Charles Gray as Benson
John Le Mesurier as Sir Robert
Felix Aylmer as Henrickson
Ernest Clark as Minister
Tutte Lemkow as Paviot
Keith Pyott as Gustave

Production notes

Rex Harrison was originally meant to star but he dropped out and Cliff Robertson was hired to replace him. The film was the first screen credit for William Goldman who had been hired to Americanise the diaologue for Robertson (Robertson had just commissioned Goldman to adapt Flowers for Algernon into a screenplay).^[2]

Location scenes filmed in Spain and the Middle East.
Working title: The Shabby Tiger. Also known as Operation Masquerade.

References

↑ http://allmovie.com/work/man-in-the-moon-101249
↑ Goldman, William, Adventures in the Screen Trade 1982 p 170-173

External links

Masquerade at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Basil Dearden

The Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
The Goose Steps Out (1942)
The Bells Go Down (1943)
My Learned Friend (1943)
The Halfway House (1944)
Dead of Night (1945)
They Came to a City (1945)
The Captive Heart (1946)
Frieda (1947)
Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
Train of Events (1949)
The Blue Lamp (1950)
Cage of Gold (1950)
Pool of London (1951)
I Believe in You (1952)
The Gentle Gunman (1952)
The Square Ring (1953)
The Rainbow Jacket (1954)
Out of the Clouds (1955)
The Ship That Died of Shame (1955)
Who Done It? (1956)
The Green Man (1956)
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
Violent Playground (1958)
Sapphire (1959)
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
Man in the Moon (1960)
The Secret Partner (1961)
Victim (1961)
All Night Long (1962)
Life for Ruth (1962)
The Mind Benders (1963)
A Place to Go (1963)
Woman of Straw (1964)
Masquerade (1965)
Khartoum (1966)
Only When I Larf (1968)
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)

Works by William Goldman

Plays	Tenderloin (1960) Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole (1961) A Family Affair (1962) Misery (2012)

Novels	The Temple of Gold (1957) Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow (1958) Soldier in the Rain (1960) Boys and Girls Together (1964) No Way to Treat a Lady (1964) The Thing of It Is... (1967) Father's Day (1971; sequel to The Thing of It Is) The Princess Bride (1973) Wigger (1974) Marathon Man (1974) Magic (1976) Tinsel (1979) Control (1982) The Silent Gondoliers (1983) The Color of Light (1984) Heat (1985) Brothers (1986)

Films	Masquerade (1965) Harper (1966) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) The Hot Rock (1972) The Stepford Wives (1975) The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) Marathon Man (1976) All the President's Men (1976) A Bridge Too Far (1977) Magic (1978) Mr. Horn (1979, TV) Heat (1987) The Princess Bride (1987) Misery (1990) Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) Year of the Comet (1992) Chaplin (1992) Maverick (1994) The Chamber (1996) The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) Absolute Power (1997) The General's Daughter (1999) Hearts in Atlantis (2001) Dreamcatcher (2003) Wild Card (2015)

Non-fiction	The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway (1969) The Story of 'A Bridge Too Far' (1977) Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983) Wait Till Next Year (with Mike Lupica, 1988) Hype and Glory (1990) Which Lie Did I Tell? (2000) The Big Picture: Who Killed Hollywood? and Other Essays (2000)

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