
A plastic surgeon has a brief fling with a concert pianist, then she leaves him to go back to her previous boyfriend. In order to "keep" her, he operates on a patient--a female criminal on the run--and changes her face to duplicate his former lovers. Trouble ensues when the pianist returns to him.... (Full plot summary below)
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A plastic surgeon has a brief fling with a concert pianist, then she leaves him to go back to her previous boyfriend. In order to "keep" her, he operates on a patient--a female criminal on the run--and changes her face to duplicate his former lovers. Trouble ensues when the pianist returns to him.
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| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzAn uneven minor mad scientist horror pic. |
| User ReviewLucas ASaw this on Hammer's YouTube channel. The plot of this movie kinda remind me of 1935's Mad Love with Peter Lorre, but done in an interesting and well-written way. Terence Fisher once again proves that he's the only British director I can think of who can turn a solid story into a good movie. |
| User ReviewBruce BIf cosmetic surgeons could create faces like Lizabeth Scott's at will, they would be making even more than they earn now, or did half a century ago when A Stolen Face hit theaters. (But then the surgically created evil twin has been a staple of pulp movies up to John Woo's Face/Off). On holiday somewhere in England, Paul Henried, as an M.D., meets up with concert pianist (!) Scott. They fall in love, but she's spoken for. Back in grimy postwar London, he finds a patient horribly scarred in the blitz, refashions her into the spit-and-image of Scott, and marries the impudent baggage (a Cockney fadge with one foot in the gutter and the other on a banana peel). Their marriage, for some reason, does not go well. Re-enter Lizabeth Scott, who now has to play a double role.... The movie's not terrible, at least, though these noirish exercises set in Britain always have a fusty, half-hearted feel to them, more a mug of white tea than a snort of bonded Bourbon. Both Scott and Henried were well into the downslope of their careers -- which may, more than the locale, account for the enervated pace and commitment. 3 stars 10-17-13 |
| User Reviewjay nIf Botox can aid in Depression (see PubMed) then why can't plastic surgery change criminal behavior? |
| User ReviewMike MIts kind of Vertigo of the B movies, i like the atmosphere.... |
| User ReviewDaniel KFace/Off long before John Woo. Sort of. Interesting story, good performances, good direction. |