Stolen Face

Mask of desire… hiding an inferno of hate!

Stolen Face (1952) follows a brilliant but obsessive surgeon who reconstructs a woman’s face to resemble the woman he loves, setting off a chain of romantic entanglements and moral dilemmas. As the new look drives both passion and jealousy, the lives of those around him spiral into tragedy. This British psychological thriller blends moral tension, romantic obsession, and postwar noir atmosphere in a story of love, identity, and ethical compromise.

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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).