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Average rating: 45%
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2.5
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Starring: Lizabeth Scott, Paul Henreid, Andre Morell
Director: Terence Fisher
Studio: DD HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 70 mins
Certificate: PG
Genres: Horror
Languages: English
Released: 04/04/2005

Brief synopsis of Stolen Face

A plastic surgeon, who loves someone he can never have, remodels the face of a badly scared prisoner in her image.

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Rating of 2 stars out of 5 Radio Times

Take this early Hammer melodrama with a ton of salt and you may enjoy its wild fantasy about sexual obsession and the incredible achievements of plastic surgery. Two 1940s stars, past their prime, were dragged to Britain to boost international sales. Surgeon Paul Henreid falls in love with pianist Lizabeth Scott. Thwarted in his desire, he gives Scott's face to a woman convict (not a good move). Scott has fun playing both femme roles, one good, one bad but fans may detect in this tosh the themes that director Terence Fisher later developed in his Frankenstein films.

Halliwell's Film Guide

Quickie melodrama which proved fairly popular because of its Hollywood stars.

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Rated - 3 starsVERTIGO precursor?

Jason Wilcox from London, England , 20/01/2007

This film is interesting chiefly because of its plot. A bachelor doctor falls in love with a young concert pianist while on a short break but finds out too late that she is engaged to another man. When he has to do facial surgery on a young female convict he deliberately gives her the same face as his lost love, and promptly marries her. Obviously, this turns out to be a bad idea...

well worth seeing as a precursor to Hitchcock's VERTIGO, though without that film's intensity or audience manipulation. Also worth seeing for Lizbeth Scott's performance as both women.

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Rated - 3 starsVERTIGO precursor?

Jason Wilcox from London, England , 20/01/2007

This film is interesting chiefly because of its plot. A bachelor doctor falls in love with a young concert pianist while on a short break but finds out too late that she is engaged to another man. When he has to do facial surgery on a young female convict he deliberately gives her the same face as his lost love, and promptly marries her. Obviously, this turns out to be a bad idea...

well worth seeing as a precursor to Hitchcock's VERTIGO, though without that film's intensity or audience manipulation. Also worth seeing for Lizbeth Scott's performance as both women.

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