jamstubell I have around 80 Hammer films in my movie collection and this is the earliest one (due to its inclusion on "The Mummy" Blu Ray as a special feature). I'm embarking on a Hammer movie marathon for 2018 - viewing them in production order. This film kept me intrigued for most of it's short duration though the ending seemed rushed and lacklustre. Adequate performances from the leads - I have never seen or heard of Paul Henreid or Lizabeth Scott before but I found them both very watchable. The premise is fairly ridiculous and the plot rather lightweight but there were entertaining scenes throughout. The direction and editing was quite good for a low budget black and white film that is 66 years old. 4/10 - Fair

evening1 Paul Henreid plays an odd duck here. His crush on an ill pianist falls through, so he uses his plastic-surgery skills to transform a career criminal with a disfigured face into a replica of his lost love. Who even contemplates such a thing?Dr. Phillip is presented as highly ethical before embarking on his bizarre scheme. He has a theory that looking good will transform his Cockney honey into a delightful life companion. (Didn't he ever hear that "all that glistens isn't gold"?) There is some wonderful tension in the film when it turns out that pianist Alice doesn't want to marry her manager after all. It is fascinating to watch Alice return to Dr. Phillip -- with a photograph of his look-a-like wife just sitting there on a table.I was disappointed by the facile ending and unbelievably snide remark that concludes the film. I'd felt sure that Phil, crazed by unhappiness, would take more assertive action to escape his desperate predicament.Still, I'm glad I saw this er, unique production.

Ronvalder I saw it as a child and looked for it on video. Finally got a poor video of it, but i'm glad I own it. I really like this film, maybe it's because I am a big fan of Lizabeth Scott....maybe I like English movies, I don't know...I just like it!!! Yes, this film is dated, but it still works today.

bmacv If cosmetic surgeons could create faces like Lizabeth Scott's at will, they would be making even more than they earn now, or did half a century ago when A Stolen Face hit theaters. (But then the surgically created evil twin has been a staple of pulp movies up to John Woo's Face/Off). On holiday somewhere in England, Paul Henried, as an M.D., meets up with concert pianist (!) Scott. They fall in love, but she's spoken for. Back in grimy postwar London, he finds a patient horribly scarred in the blitz, refashions her into the spit-and-image of Scott, and marries the impudent baggage (a Cockney fadge with one foot in the gutter and the other on a banana peel). Their marriage, for some reason, does not go well. Re-enter Lizabeth Scott, who now has to play a double role.... The movie's not terrible, at least, though these noirish exercises set in Britain always have a fusty, half-hearted feel to them, more a mug of white tea than a snort of bonded Bourbon. Both Scott and Henried were well into the downslope of their careers -- which may, more than the locale, account for the enervated pace and commitment.