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Bud Brewster · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 6:49 pm Post subject: Stolen Face (1952 England)

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A mad-scientist version of "My Fair Lady". Plastic surgeon Paul Henreid ("Casablanca") loves gorgeous Lizabeth Scott, but she remains unattainable, so he creates a substitute look-alike from a female prison inmate (also played by Scott).

Director Terence Fisher doesn't quite manage to make us believe what we're seeing, but it's still an interesting film. Fisher had better success directing the Hammer horror films such as "The Curse of Frankenstein".
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

Bud Brewster · Posted: Sun May 15, 2016 5:15 pm Post subject:

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It's not actually a trailer, it's a three-minute promo, but a very good one, and it's made me want to see this movie.

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

Rick · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 6:05 pm Post subject:

People keep listing this amongst Hammer's horror and s-f films and I don't see it. I don't think it qualifies in either category.

Not a bad movie, though.
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Man need not kneel before the angels,
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Gord Green · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 7:10 pm Post subject:

Kind of a low rent version of VERIGO !