(re)search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" height="1%" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="99%">   <p>Burnt out by his work as plastic surgeon, Doc Phil Ritter (Paul Henreid) takes a vacation in the country, and in a hotel in the middle of nowhere, he meets the love of his life, Alice (Lizabeth Scott). The two spend the time of their life in the hotel, but soon it becomes apparent that Alice has some secrets from Phil, and one day she just leaves without notice. when Phil is finally able to track her down in London, he learns that she is about to get married.</p> <p>Heartbroken Phil returns to work, doing a project on giving disfigured convicts plastic surgery to facilitate their reentry into normal society. Before long he meets young but disfigured Lily (Mary Mackenzie), who has spent half of her life in prison, possibly because of her wicked looks and resulting problems. So Phil remodels her in the image of Alice (and Lily is then also played by Lizabeth Scott), and soon enough, he falls in love with Lily and marries her, taking her for the perfect replacement.</p> <p>But Lily has a problem, she can't simply shake old habits, and thus continues shoplifting (and expensive stuff like jewellery and furcoats, too), plus she still as some underworld friends like Pete (Terence O'Regan), her secret lover, who are not at all to the Doctor's liking.</p> <p>Then Alice returns, tells Phil she didn't get married after all, and tries to make up with him - but now it's of course too late ...</p> <p>When Lily finds out about Alice, it doesn't take her long to figure out that Phil doesn't love her but the face he gave her ... and she starts drinking and partying heavily, behaves rude towards him and accuses him of cheating on her.</p> <p>It all culminates in a showdown on a train, where Lily drunkenly gets into a fight with her husband, right before Alice (of all people) enters the compartment ... and ultimately, Lily falls out of the train to her death ...</p> <p> </p> <p>If you look very closely, you might be able to find story elements in this film that predate Alfred Hitchcock's <b>Vertigo</b> by six years, but that aside, <b>Stolen Face</b> is a very mediocre crime drama that seems to be rather undecided about which direction to take, which story to tell - and as a result the film doesn't really get anywhere and leaves open way too many questions to actually work.</p> <p>Not really good.</p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="1%">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2006"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>