Mask of desire… hiding an inferno of hate!
A brilliant but lonely plastic surgeon falls for a beautiful concert pianist, and after she rejects him, he reshapes a female convict's face to match hers. Hoping to recreate his lost love, he instead finds himself trapped in a nightmare as the woman’s criminal past resurfaces. This British noir blends romance, obsession, and identity into a haunting tale of love gone dangerously wrong.
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Fisher’s first (and still awkwardly directed) fantasy film tells of a plastic surgeon who remodels the scarred face of the ‘bad’ Mary to make her look like his love, Alice, about to be married to a friend. … Fisher returned to the Frankenstein theme of a surgeon who creates a duplicate of his loved one in Four Sided Triangle (1953).
Phil Hardy, The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Horror (The Overlook Press, 1994)
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Notes
- Icon’s Blu-ray of The Mummy (1959) includes this film as an extra (SD PAL, 576i).
- VCI’s “Hammer Film Noir Double Feature, Vol. 2” DVD also includes Blackout (1954). It is also available in the “Hammer Film Noir Double Feature - Collector’s Set” box set. Trailers included: Bury Me Dead (1947), The Unholy Four (1954) and Portland Exposé (1957).
- Simply’s DVD includes a 24-page booklet with writing by Marcus Hearn and Jonathan Rigby.
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| Extras | The World of Hammer Noir - Commentary by Richard M. Roberts VCI DVD |
| Biography: Actress Lizabeth Scott VCI DVD | |
| Biography: Director Terence Fisher VCI DVD | |
| “Danger List” Simply DVD |