'Face of a Stranger (1964) – John Llewellyn Moxy.

Directed in a bravura fashion by veteran film & TV director John Llewellyn Moxy, the greatly talented fellow behind Brit-Horror classic 'Horror Hotel' (1960). 'Face of a Stranger' is, perhaps, one of my favourite Edgar Wallace 60s crime thrillers, with an engaging, palm-tinglingly well-conceived plot over 'le crime passionelle', enjoying a terrifically vivid turn from sterling character actor Jeremy Kemp as the taciturn, charismatic, darkly duplicitous crim Vince, whose deeply nefarious plan to assume the identity of former cellmate John Bell (Philip Locke) in order to diabolically dupe John's beautiful blind wife Mary (Rosemary Leach) made for consistently exciting, twist-laden drama! With a far greater reliance on character, and narrative nuance than some of the more prosaic episodes of 'The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre', the strikingly erotic, steely-eyed Jeremy Kemp's ambivalent Vince being a singularly complex villain, not only remarkably multifaceted, but one with infinitely more sympathetic, relatable motives than one usually sees in the noisome, twin-fisted B&W Pulp fiction of the prolific, but not exactly varied oeuvre of the estimable crime writer Mr. Wallace, and it would prove entirely remiss if I didn't mention the no less fascinating performance from the extremely talented Rosemary Leach, her delightfully oblique Mary most certainly playing her cards close to her chest! 'Face of a Stranger' is, perhaps, one of Edgar Wallace's more refined and enduring mysteries'