A homely girl is seriously injured in a car crash. When she eventually wakes up in the hospital, she's astounded to see that plastic surgery has transformed her into a world-class beauty. When she finds out that a mysterious "benefactor" has paid for her surgery, she sets out to find out who he is and why he did it.
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The Second Face is so ridiculous as to be nearly incomprehensible, alternately infuriating and laugh-out-loud funny in its absurdity. I cannot in good conscience recommend it, but if you ever want to engage with something so hamfistedly done that it accidentally makes it impossible to stay mad at how stupid and offensive it is, The Second Face should be your destination.
The film's plot rests entirely upon the premise that, if you give Ella Raines a nose that looks like it has been broken, and a slightly lower hairline, she immediately becomes so shockingly, hideously ugly that she is rejected from jobs she's already been offered (in her absence, naturally), and is so desperate for male attention that she (repeatedly,…
Jack Bernhard’s romantic drama in which a woman (Ella Raines) remembers her life as a ‘plain Jane’ while waiting for treatment for the wounds she has sustained in a car incident.
The story concerns a young girl, who is badly hurt in an automobile accident, wakes up to discover the plastic surgery has changed her into a world-class beauty. She sets out to locate her mysterious supporter.
Ella Raines gives a good performance in her role as Phyllis, the woman whose life is dramatically changed following plastic surgery after an awful incident, while Bruce Bennett is decent as Paul, the secretary who Phyllis works for.
Elsewhere, there are fine performances to be had from Rita Johnson, John Sutton, Patricia Knight…
The career of Ella Raines has found a renewed interest in recent years. When used well (as in a noir like Phantom Lady), her striking, icy beauty compliments a sense of the underworld—she’s not a wholesome screen presence, rather one who suggests something urban and dangerous. The Second Face, then, is unusual in several ways. First of all, it casts the actress in a rare leading role, but it also demands that she play fairly meek and restrained, a well-to-do woman who has difficulty finding her place within the world. Her transformation in the flashback scenes is striking—sporting a fake nose and greasy, tightly pulled back hair, Raines plays the role without any sense of vanity, even if an actress…
The curse of being plain and ugly as told through Ella Raines, who is anything but. They did fix her nose up and that played a key part with everything that went down. A little too corny for a drama for me, but considering the gimmick nose it was alright.
Terrible screenplay and some decidedly second tier performances. Ella Raines is really bad in the lead role.
A movie where the entire premise would crumble if the lead had merely thrown on a little lipstick
En mi humilde -casi menguante- opinion, hay varias formas de ver un melodrama: 1- con una dosis de gran ingenuidad 2- buscando en las vicisitudes (ridiculas a veces) de los personajes significados simbolicos o trabajosas alegorias (caso Sirk) 3- Como un consumo ironico 4- Una mezcla de todo. En general, me inclino por la tercera opcion, ya que no siempre tengo a mano los elementos para interpretar algunos simbolos o tambien es posible que yo no sea tan culto o sensible como me gustaria esperar (de mi) El consumo ironico viene al auxilio de ese inmediato deseo de descarte de un film que a todas luces parece una coda de una soap opera para visitar a la hora de la…
After Phyllis's face has been turned into cream cheese, the viewer is squeezed through a mincer of cruel, vain emotions. All in all pretty vacant.
