Stolen Face

Mask of desire… hiding an inferno of hate!

Stolen Face (1952) follows a London plastic surgeon who becomes obsessed with a concert pianist after a brief romance ends when she leaves the country. When he later encounters a female criminal disfigured during a robbery, he performs surgery to remake her in the image of the woman he desires. This British crime drama blends psychological obsession, medical ethics, and noir tension while examining identity, control, and the dangers of idealized love.

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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).