Stolen Face

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

The Production Team

Director: Terence Fisher.
Producer: Anthony Hinds.
Script: Martin Berkeley and Richard H. Landau. (from a story by Alexander Paal and Steven Vas)
Cinematography: Walter J. Harvey.
Film Editing: Maurice Rootes.
Production Design: C. Wilfred Arnold.
Costume Design: Edith Head.
Makeup Department: Bill Griffiths and Philip Leakey.
Sound Department: Bill Salter.
Original Music: Malcolm Arnold.

The Cast

Paul Henreid - Dr. Philip Ritter
Lizabeth Scott - Alice Brent/Lily Conover, after surgery
Mary Mackenzie - Lily Conover, before surgery
André Morell - David
John Wood - Dr. Jack Wilson
Susan Stephen - Betty
Arnold Ridley - Dr. Russell
Everley Gregg - Lady Millicent Harringay

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.