Behind the Mask (1932 film)


Behind the Mask is a 1932 American pre-Code crime film directed by John Francis Dillon, starring Jack Holt and featuring Boris Karloff and Edward Van Sloan.

Cast

A federal agent goes undercover to infiltrate a drug smuggling operation headed by a mysterious Mr. X, a criminal mastermind whose identity is unknown even to his henchmen. Mr. X is also running a bogus hospital where victims are killed on the operating table, and their coffins stuffed with narcotics. The drug-filled coffins are then buried in a cemetery.