Films involving Disfigurement

Disfigurement: Minor Films no photo.

Title	Face Behind the Scar (1940)
Alternative/Original Title
Disability	Disfigurement
Country	UK
Length	63
Genre	Thriller
Rating	1
Director	W.Victor Hanbury
Cast	Rosalyn Boulter Constance Godridge James Harcourt Ellis Jeffreys Griffith Jones Sylvia Marriott Cecil Ramage
Notes	B/W. Unbelievable story of scientist wrongly accused of murder who flees to South Africa and is disfigured there in laboratory explosion. Using this 'disguise' he returns to London to clear his name and win back his girlfriend. ****************************** A scientist is going out with a society girl a relationship disapproved of by her family. They hire a solicitor to pay him off. He refuses but in a plot twist the solicitor's assistant takes the money and kills the solicitor. The scientist is blamed and flees to South Africa. During four years he's successful there and is forging a new relationship. Just at the moment when he is offered and turns down a job for the firm which involves going to London he is caught in a laboratory explosion. The good news for him is that he can now return to London clear his name and find his girl. The bad news for us is that his disfigurement is so slight our credulity is stretched beyond bounds. The girlfriend is now married but recognises him and so does her husband which leads to a merry chase. At the beginning of the film we see the society girl's mother in a wheelchair and walking only with the aid of two sticks. Four years later she has no disability. I can't see a reason for this inclusion in the story.

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