Bette Davis had one of her earliest roles in THE MENACE, a minor Edgar Wallace mystery, which boasts what is quite possibly the first use of a now familiar plot device: an innocent man breaking out of jail and having plastic surgery as part of a scheme to avenge himself.
After being framed for his father's murder, Englishman Ronald Quayle (Walter Byron) escapes from prison and goes to America, where his face is badly burned while working in an oil field. Following plastic surgery, Ronald reads that his family mansion has been seized for debts, and he returns to
England. Using an alias, he poses as an American oil millionaire who wants to buy the mansion, in an a...
Released:
1932
Rated:
NR
Length:
65 mins