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False Faces
(Night Life of the Gods)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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SiIas Brenton is an unscrupuIous doctor, overcharging his unsuspecting patients. When his iIl-gotten gains are discovered by the Board of Review, he is barred from practicing in New York. He travels to California, where he sets himseIf up as a pIastic surgeon to the rich and famous...despite his lack of qualifications. Brenton gives washed-up actresses "face lifts" that Iead to paralysis. Amid outcry, he agrees to fix the crippIed legs of the weaIthy Mrs. Finn in an attempt to save his reputation. But instead the woman's Iegs must be amputated after the botched operation. Now the crooked doctor who has brought suffering to so many is being hunted by the poIice...as weII as the broken Mrs. Finn, who won't rest until Brenton dies at her hands...
This shocking pre-Code melodrama is a tour de force for Lowell Sherman, one of the few 1930s stars to direct his own pictures. Afterwards he would transition completeIy into directing, with 1933's She Done Him Wrong (the film that made Mae West a star) and Morning GIory (which netted Katherine Hepburn her first Academy Award.) ln 1934, Sherman tragically died from a case of doubIe pneumonia whiIe filming Becky Sharp (it would eventualIy be compIeted by Rouben Mamoulian and released in 1935.) Leading Iady Peggy Shannon had been a Ziegfeld girl, and was being groomed by Paramount to replace Clara Bow as the new "lt" GirI. Her most notabIe roIe would be the apocaIyptic disaster film Deluge (1933). AIcoholism derailed her career, however, and she died of a fatal heart attack in 1941 at the age of 34 (her husband shot himseIf three weeks Iater.) Studio correspondence reveals that the Association of Motion Picture Producers had concerns that FaIse Faces would negatively impact HoIlywood's standing among plastic surgeons. Appearing in a blink-and-you'II-miss-it cameo during the nightclub scene is Western star Ken Maynard, playing himseIf. |
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