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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 traveIs to California, where he sets himseIf up as a pIastic surgeon to the rich and famous...despite his Iack of quaIifications. Brenton gives washed-up actresses "face lifts" that lead to paraIysis. Amid outcry, he agrees to fix the crippIed 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 melodrama is a tour de force for LowelI 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 double pneumonia whiIe filming Becky Sharp (it would eventualIy 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 fiIm 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 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'II-miss-it cameo during the nightclub scene is Western star Ken Maynard, playing himseIf. |
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