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A Masterpiece!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

I wasn't expecting too much from "The Face of Marble", despite it starring John Carradine, seeing that it was a quickie effort by Monogram Pictures and directed by the all too prolific William Beaudine. After seeing it, I will admit that it's not a terrible movie... but it's definitely very, very mediocre. Beaudine does take what had to be a painfully low budget (and short shooting schedule) and make a movie that looks okay. He even puts in a little atmosphere here and there. Unfortunately, in the end there is painfully little that could be considered horror. While there is material like a vampire dog, it does almost all its business offscreen. As it turns out, most of the movie is talk, talk, talk, and it's so drab dialogue (on top of a very slow-moving story) that not even Carradine can put some life into the dialogue given to him. While this is not one of the worst movies I have ever seen, I don't see any classic horror fan finding much positive to say about it.

There's a Lot Going On in this Monogram Quickie Directed by the King of Quick Draws, William Beaudine and Starring John Carradine. It is a Mad Scientist Movie but the Scientist Here is Really Not Mad, Just Determined to Help Mankind Although He Does Experiment Out of the Box.Robert Shayne is the Assistant and Figures in a Love Triangle of Sorts and there is Voodoo Magic, a Brain Surgery Suffering Wife that Really has Nothing to do with the Story, Reincarnated Ghostly Apparitions, a Family Dog that Walks Through Walls, and Some Mad Lab Scenes that are Somewhat Impressive.It's a Jammed Packed Little Low Budget Movie Crammed with Sincere Characters and One Loopy Lunatic, Some Grisly Murders, and the Whole Thing is Handled Perfectly Serious and Straight. That Makes for Some Edge and it is More Melodramatic than Scary and has More Food for Thought than Usually Found in This Type of Outlandish Horror. Overall, it is Above Average and the Tone is Quite Different than the Usual B-Movie Crazy Scientist Stuff. The Cast is Good and the Result is an Unusual Display of a Number of Ingredients Thrown Together Quite Irrationally and Intentionally and that Makes this Stand Apart from its Poverty Row Cousins.

Pretty nice black & white horror film starring the great John Carradine as Professor Charles Randolf, a prominent brain surgeon, who retires to his mansion on a cliff that overlooks the sea. Randolf summons one of his best students, scientist David Cochran(Robert Shayne), to partner with him in an obsessive project. The mad professor wants to revive a dead brain. A drown sailor washes up on the shore becoming a perfect subject. The brain is revived; but the sailor's hair turns white and has a face that looks like it was chiseled out of marble...only to die. The dumped body is found and Inspector Norton(Thomas E. Jackson)comes to the mansion asking questions. There is Randolf's wife Elaine(Claudia Drake), the butler Shadrach(Willie Best) and a house maid Maria(Rosa Rey), who dabbles with voodoo. But this will not stop the experimenting. Apt atmosphere that sustains interest. Also in the cast: Maris Wrixon, Neal Burns and Donald Kerr.

John Carradine gets the chance to be the lead mad scientist in this good but not really remarkable tale about reviving the dead. Carradine's experiments result in a temporary return to life but give the subject the title face. An experiment on his wife's dog results in its ability to walk through walls. Add to the mix a love triangle between Carradine's "younger" assistant (played by an actor a half a decade older) and Carradine's wife. Oh yea the house keeper knows voodoo. It's a busy mix that still ends up being a bit too leisurely paced. Creepy at times the film the film never truly generates a great deal of thrills and by the time the end rolls around you'll be happy to have seen Carradine in a lead, and wish he had had a better vehicle to drive. Worth a shot for Carradine fans.