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Mad Love (also released as The Hands of Orlac) is a 1935 American body horror film, an adaptation of Maurice Renard 's novel The Hands of Orlac. It was directed by German -émigré film maker Karl Freund, and stars Peter Lorre as Dr. Gogol, Frances Drake as Yvonne Orlac and Colin Clive as Stephen Orlac. The plot revolves around Doctor Gogol's ...
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Mad Love: Directed by Karl Freund. With Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy. In Paris, a demented surgeon's obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert-pianist husband's mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer with a gift for knife-throwing.
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- Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
- Karl Freund
- 1935-07-12
Mad Love (1935) -- (Movie Clip) I'd Gladly Give My Own Two Hands Paris surgeon Gogol (Peter Lorre), who is thus far not sinister, only obsessed with actress Yvonne (Frances Drake), concludes he cannot save her injured pianist husband’s hands, then remembers, without telling her, the ones left over from the execution he just witnessed, in Mad Love, 1935.
- Karl Freund, John Langan, Dolph Zimmer
- Peter Lorre
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Rated: 3/5 • Jul 28, 2005. Grand Guignol theater actress Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake) is married to concert pianist Stephen (Colin Clive) and plans to take a break from acting to tour with him ...
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- Peter Lorre
- Karl Freund
- Sci-Fi
At first Orlac is disappointed to learn he may never play the piano again, but is soon horrified by a new-found fascination and skill with knives. Gogol inflames Stephen's mental instability, frames him for murder, and with Orlac out of the way, Gogol hopes to win the love of Yvonne.
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives. Karl Freund. Maurice Renard. P.J. Wolfson. John L. Balderston.
Mad Love is a 1935 American body horror film, an adaptation of Maurice Renard's novel The Hands of Orlac. It was directed by German-émigré film maker Karl Freund, and stars Peter Lorre as Dr. Gogol, Frances Drake as Yvonne Orlac and Colin Clive as Stephen Orlac. The plot revolves around Doctor Gogol's obsession with actress Yvonne Orlac. When Stephen Orlac's hands are destroyed in a train ...