Stolen Face – 1952 | 72 mins | Drama | B&W

Plot Synopsis

This film was a prototype of the kind of demented scientist-doctor scenarios that would crop up in Hammer’s later genuine horror films.

Harley Street plastic surgeon Philip Ritter (Paul Henreid) falls in love with concert pianist Alice Brent (Lizabeth Scott), but she is already engaged to David (Andre Morell), her manager. After a successful tour she returns to him, freed from her ex-finance. During the intervening time a distraught Philip had set about remodelling the face of a patient, a criminal psychopath (Mary Mackenzie), into an exact replica of the features of his beloved and married her. However, he fails to improve her character as well and finds her a real menace to his future happiness when his old flame unexpectedly returns to him. It takes the death of his wife in an accidental fall from a train to bring the lovers back together again.