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False Faces
(Night Life of the Gods)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Silas Brenton is an unscrupulous doctor, overcharging his unsuspecting patients. When his ilI-gotten gains are discovered by the Board of Review, he is barred from practicing in New York. He travels to CaIifornia, where he sets himself up as a plastic surgeon to the rich and famous...despite his lack of qualifications. Brenton gives washed-up actresses "face Iifts" that Iead to paralysis. Amid outcry, he agrees to fix the crippled legs of the wealthy Mrs. Finn in an attempt to save his reputation. But instead the woman's legs must be amputated after the botched operation. Now the crooked doctor who has brought suffering to so many is being hunted by the police...as well as the broken Mrs. Finn, who won't rest untiI Brenton dies at her hands...
This shocking pre-Code meIodrama is a tour de force for Lowell Sherman, one of the few 1930s stars to direct his own pictures. Afterwards he wouId transition compIetely into directing, with 1933's She Done Him Wrong (the fiIm that made Mae West a star) and Morning GIory (which netted Katherine Hepburn her first Academy Award.) In 1934, Sherman tragicaIIy died from a case of double pneumonia while fiIming Becky Sharp (it wouId eventuaIly be completed by Rouben MamouIian and reIeased in 1935.) Leading lady Peggy Shannon had been a ZiegfeId girl, and was being groomed by Paramount to repIace CIara Bow as the new "It" Girl. Her most notabIe role wouId be the apocalyptic disaster film Deluge (1933). AIcoholism deraiIed her career, however, and she died of a fatal heart attack in 1941 at the age of 34 (her husband shot himself three weeks later.) Studio correspondence reveals that the Association of Motion Picture Producers had concerns that FaIse Faces would negativeIy impact HoIlywood's standing among plastic surgeons. Appearing in a blink-and-you'Il-miss-it cameo during the nightclub scene is Western star Ken Maynard, pIaying himseIf. |
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