Mad Love

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Mad Love (1935)

NR 07/12/1935 (US) Horror, Romance 1h 8m

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A new, a strange, a gifted personality comes to the screen!

Overview

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

Director
Maurice Renard

Novel
John L. Balderston

Screenplay
P.J. Wolfson

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Peter Lorre

Doctor Gogol
Frances Drake

Yvonne Orlac
Colin Clive

Stephen Orlac
Ted Healy

Reagan
Sara Haden

Marie
Edward Brophy

Rollo
Henry Kolker

Prefect Rosset
Keye Luke

Dr. Wong
May Beatty

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Brilliant surgeon Dr. Gogol is infatuated with Horror Theatre star Yvonne Orlac. After meeting her in person and realising that she only has eyes for her husband, the renowned pianist Stephen Orlac, he buys a life size mannequin of her and dreams of doing what Pygmalion did with Galatea. When Stephen is involved in an horrific train crash and has both his hands crushed beyond healing, Yvonne pleads with Gogol to help save his well being, he does, by amputating the crushed hands and grafting on the hands of a recently executed murderer, a murderer whose speciality was knives!

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