 During WWI, Leslie Banks suffered a disfiguring injury that  paralyzed the left side of his face. Never once letting this injury  interrupt his career, he went back to the stage after his release  from service in 1918, and within six years was an international  stage star. He was one of the most popular British actors on  Broadway throughout most of the 1920s since his appearance in the  1924 production of "Peter Pan" as Captain Hook. "The Most Dangerous  Game" was his film debut.