Directed by:
Sidney HayersScreenplay:
George BaxtCinematography:
Douglas SlocombeComposer:
Franz ReizensteinCast:
Anton Diffring, Yvonne Monlaur, Donald Pleasence, Jane Hylton, Walter Gotell, Jack Gwillim, Kenny Baker, Yvonne Romain, Erika Remberg, Kenneth Griffith (more)VOD (3)
Plots(1)
In England, 1947; Dr. Rossiter (Anton Diffring) botches an operation and scars his patient's face for life, so he and his assistants (Kenneth Griffith & Jane Hylton) evade the police and escape to France under disguise as Dr. Schuler. Once there, he sees a girl scarred in the recent war and after befriending her father Vanet (Donald Pleasence), a travelling circus owner, he offers to use his plastic surgery skills to restore her face for free. Afterwards he manipulates his way into the family and running of the circus troupe, eventually taking it over when the owner dies in a drunken incident. Before long the circus is used as a front for his increasingly deranged and experimental surgical exploits, where he befriends disfigured women and transforms them for his internationally successful "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with gruesome accidents which begin to raise the suspicions of both reporters and Scotland Yard, who are soon hot on his trail. (StudioCanal UK)
(more)Cast
Anton Diffring
German Empire
Best movies:
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
State Secret (1950)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Yvonne Monlaur
France
Best movies:
It Started in Naples (1960)
The Brides of Dracula (1960)
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Donald Pleasence
UK
Best movies:
The Great Escape (1963)
Watch Out, We're Mad (1974)
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (TV movie)
Jane Hylton
UK
Best movies:
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
The Wild Geese (1978)
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Walter Gotell
German Empire
Best movies:
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Jack Gwillim
UK
Best movies:
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959)
Kenny Baker
UK
Best movies:
Amadeus (1984)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
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Yvonne Romain
UK
Best movies:
The Silent Enemy (1958)
A King in New York (1957)
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Erika Remberg
Indonesia
Best movies:
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The Lickerish Quartet (1970)
Kenneth Griffith
UK
Best movies:
Tiger Bay (1959)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
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William Mervyn
Kenya
Best movies:
Murder Ahoy (1964)
Hot Millions (1968)
Upstairs and Downstairs (1959)
Conrad Phillips
UK
Best movies:
Murder She Said (1961)
The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
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Glyn Houston
UK
Best movies:
Tiger Bay (1959)
The One That Got Away (1957)
A Stitch in Time (1963)
Peter Swanwick
UK
Best movies:
The African Queen (1951)
Kill Me Tomorrow (1957)
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Kenneth J. Warren
Australia
Best movies:
I Was Monty's Double (1958)
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Malcom Watson
UK
Best movies:
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Fred Haggerty
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
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Jim O'Brady
UK
Best movies:
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
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John Merivale
Canada
Best movies:
The Invisible Man (1933)
King Rat (1965)
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Colette Wilde
Best movies:
Circus of Horrors (1960)
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