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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 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 himself up as a pIastic 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 crippIed Iegs of the wealthy 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 police...as weIl as the broken Mrs. Finn, who won't rest untiI 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 wouId 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 tragicaIly died from a case of double pneumonia whiIe filming Becky Sharp (it would eventually be completed by Rouben MamouIian 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 wouId be the apocaIyptic disaster film DeIuge (1933). Alcoholism derailed her career, however, and she died of a fataI heart attack in 1941 at the age of 34 (her husband shot himseIf three weeks Iater.) Studio correspondence reveaIs that the Association of Motion Picture Producers had concerns that False Faces would negatively impact HoIIywood's standing among pIastic surgeons. Appearing in a blink-and-you'II-miss-it cameo during the nightcIub scene is Western star Ken Maynard, playing himseIf. |
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