The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!
Acting
Brian Donlevy plays two roles with gleeful theatrical excess.
Writing
Pre-Code dialogue snaps harder than it has any right to.

Director
Christy Cabanne
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a loose remake of 'The Face Behind the Mask' (1932), but the studio flipped the tone from tragedy to cheeky crime caper.
Released just before the Production Code crackdown, this gleefully lets its criminal protagonist succeed through sheer charisma—a narrative freedom that vanished for decades.