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Mad Love (1935)
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An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist's hands with the hands of a knife murderer which still have the urge to throw knives. Director:Karl FreundWriters:Maurice Renard (novel), Florence Crewe-Jones (translation and adaptation: novel "The Hands of Orlac"), and 7 more credits » |
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Frances Drake | ... |
Yvonne Orlac
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Reagan, the American Reporter
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Sara Haden | ... |
Marie, Yvonne's Maid
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Edward Brophy | ... |
Rollo the Knife Thrower
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Henry Kolker | ... |
Prefect Rosset
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Keye Luke | ... |
Dr. Wong, Gogol's Assistant
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May Beatty | ... |
Françoise, Gogol's Housekeeper
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George Davis | ... |
Chauffeur
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Billy Dooley | ... |
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Harold Huber | ... |
Thief
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Isabel Jewell | ... |
Marianne
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Leo White | ... |
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Storyline
In Paris, the great surgeon Dr. Gogol falls madly in love with stage actress Yvonne Orlac, and his ardor disturbs her quite a bit when he discovers to his horror that she is married to concert pianist Stephen Orlac. Shortly thereafter, Stephen's hands are badly crushed in a train accident- beyond the power of standard medicine. Knowing that his hands are his life, Yvonne overcomes her fear and goes to Dr. Gogol, to beg him to help. Gogol decides to surgically graft the hands of executed murderer Rollo onto Stephen Orlac, the surgery is successful but has terrible side-effects... Written by Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
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His love was pitiful...hopeless...madness...yet "The Thing" tired of pity - and demanded love! See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
(USA) See more »Also Known As:
The Hands of Orlac See more »Filming Locations:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USABox Office
Budget:
$257,502 (estimated)Company Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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A torn poster of this movie, with its Spanish translation "Las manos de Orlac", appears in Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, as a symbol for the intricate novel's plot that subsumes as dissension between mind and body of its anti-hero protagonist. See more »Goofs
Continuity: The wax statue of "Yvonne" is shown with arms straight down through the film, but toward the end, when there is a shot of the real Yvonne facing the wax statue, the statue has it's left arm bent, with hand on hip. See more »Quotes
Man on Train with Dog: I have here autographs of a hundred famous persons and not a single murderer.See more »
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