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White Face (also known as Edgar Wallace's White Face the Fiend) is a 1932 British crime film directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Hugh Williams, Gordon Harker and Renee Gadd. The film is based on a play by Edgar Wallace.[1]

White Face
Directed by	T. Hayes Hunter
Written by	Angus MacPhail (scenario) Bryan Edgar Wallace (adaptation)
Based on	play Persons Unknown by Edgar Wallace
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Starring	Hugh Williams Gordon Harker Renee Gadd
Cinematography	Alex Bryce Bernard Knowles
Music by	Louis Levy
Production companies	British Lion Film Corporation Gainsborough Pictures
Distributed by	Woolf & Freedman Film Service (UK)
Release date	May 1932 (London) (UK)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Plot

A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.

Cast

• Hugh Williams - Michael Seeley
• Gordon Harker - Sam Hackett
• Norman McKinnel - Inspector Mason
• Renee Gadd - Janice Harman
• Richard Bird - Donald Bateman
• Nora Swinburne - Inez Landor
• Leslie Perrins - Louis Landor
• J.H. Roberts - Doctor Marford
• D. A. Clarke-Smith - Dr. Rudd
• Gibb McLaughlin - Sgt. Elk
• Jeanne Stuart - Gloria Gaye
• Clare Greet - Mrs. Albert

Preservation status

The film is now considered a lost film, but the screenplay still exists.[2] While working on this film, an affair between Hugh Williams and Renee Gadd began.[3]

Critical reception

The New York Times wrote, "the British studios contribute a well-bred little mystery picture to the Broadway market in White Face, which is at the Broadway Theatre. An Edgar Wallace product, tailor-made according to the formula for these matters, it places a corpse in a slummy London street at midnight, sets the hounds of Scotland Yard baying up several wrong trees, and in good time whips the mask off the mysterious White Face. On Hollywood standards it is a pleasant enough item for the homicide enthusiasts, suffering generally from a faintly anemic quality and specifically from an absence of humor."[4]

References

Bibliography

• Sweet, Matthew. Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema (Faber and Faber, 2005)

External links

• White Face at IMDb

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