Stolen Face

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Martin B 05/28/2024 The reason it's a terrific yarn is it's different. Lizbeth Scott gets a chance to show the breadth of her acting skills and as the story evelves we really have no idea which way it will go. All the actors were flawed. Scotts two were a cheater and an ignorant psychopath. Heinrich's was a man so superficial he thought mear beauty was the sum of a persons self worth. The end hokey and convenient for sure but we didn't really know how it would end. Plus we don't know how the characters would move on. Staying together given what the good doctor did and how creepy it was sure didn't make for happy ever after. See more Victor T 03/23/2023 Lizabeth Scott tries her best for a cockney accent when playing the plastic surgery clone of high class self. See more 01/14/2017 Initially compelling noir from Hammer Films that, ultimately, succumbs to a weak ending. Follows the story of a plastic surgeon who attempts to reform (and rehabilitate) a criminal into the image of his lost love. Could have been a winner with a better conclusion, alas . . . See more 08/27/2014 Its kind of Vertigo of the B movies, i like the atmosphere.... See more 04/30/2014 A film worth adding to your collection. See more 10/17/2013 If 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 See more Read all reviews

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