Stolen Face (1952)
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Status: In Release
Category: Film
Genre: Science Fiction
Language: English
Running time: TBA
Directed by: Terence Fisher
Written by: Martin Berkeley
Produced by: Anthony Hinds
Synopsis
The eminent cosmetic surgeon Dr. Philip Ritter, operates on a badly disfigured woman moulding her features in the image of the girl he once loved. After the operation the two are married But when Lily realises that Ritter married her as a substitute for his former lover, her anger and humiliation brings her simmering psychosis to the surface as she returns to her former life of crime. His professional career is threatened by his wife's erratic, unstable behaviour and when his former girlfriend returns to him, Ritter decides to remove his wife forever and believes murder is his only option.
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24 Jan 2012, 11:32pm
Terence Fisher's second film for Hammer, concerning a doctor's surgical restoration of an insane woman's outer beauty, borders on the fantastic and can be seen as a precursor to the director's break-out Science Fiction film, FOUR-SIDED TRIANGLE, again concerning scientists and a fatal beauty. Fisher returned for his richest and deepest exploration of the theme with the notable FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN.