Face of Fire

Face of Fire (1959)

Who Would Dare Lift the Mask!

A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.

Date of release
1959-08-09
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 19m
Genres
Drama
Director
Albert Band

Casting

Interesting facts

Face of Fire is a 1959 American drama film directed by Albert Band and written by Louis A. Garfinkle. It is based on the 1898 novella The Monster by Stephen Crane. The film stars Cameron Mitchell, James Whitmore, Bettye Ackerman, Miko Oscard, Royal Dano, Robert F. Simon, Richard Erdman and Howard Smith. The film was released on August 9, 1959, by Allied Artists Pictures.

Production

Albert Band had written the script for Red Badge of Courage (1951) based on the novel by Stephen Crane and wanted to make a film of Crane’s short story “The Monster.” He found some finance in Stockholm, Sweden and decided to make the film there. Most of the lead cast were imported from Hollywood. They included Richard Erdman who recalled:

Shooting a movie in Sweden was surprisingly the same sort of thing as shooting in Hollywood, except they had longer lunches. [Production] would start mid-morning and go ’til about one, and then knock off for a couple of hours, and then come back and shoot ’til like 11 o’clock at night. About half of the Swedish people working on the movie spoke fairly good English, of course, almost none of us [Americans] spoke Swedish.

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