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. 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. While working on this film, an affair between Hugh Williams and Renee Gadd began. 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." References Bibliography Sweet, Matthew. Shepperton Babylon: The Lost Worlds of British Cinema (Faber and Faber, 2005) External links 1932 films 1932 crime films Films based on works by Edgar Wallace Films directed by T. Hayes Hunter Lost British films Gainsborough Pictures films Films set in London British crime films British black-and-white films 1932 lost films 1930s English-language films 1930s British films