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Mad Love (1935)

APPROVED  68 min  -  Romance | Horror   -  12 July 1935 (USA)
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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 Freund

Writers:

Maurice Renard (novel), Florence Crewe-Jones (translation and adaptation: novel "The Hands of Orlac"), and 7 more credits »
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Cast

Complete credited cast:
Peter Lorre ...
Frances Drake Frances Drake ...
Yvonne Orlac
Colin Clive ...
Ted Healy Ted Healy ...
Reagan, the American Reporter
Sara Haden Sara Haden ...
Marie, Yvonne's Maid (as Sarah Haden)
Edward Brophy Edward Brophy ...
Rollo the Knife Thrower
Henry Kolker Henry Kolker ...
Prefect Rosset
Keye Luke Keye Luke ...
Dr. Wong, Gogol's Assistant
May Beatty May Beatty ...
Françoise, Gogol's Housekeeper
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
George Davis George Davis ...
Chauffeur (scenes deleted)
Billy Dooley Billy Dooley ...
Undetermined Role (scenes deleted)
Harold Huber Harold Huber ...
Thief (scenes deleted)
Isabel Jewell Isabel Jewell ...
Marianne (scenes deleted)
Leo White Leo White ...
Undetermined Role (scenes deleted)
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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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Plot Keywords:

Hand | Actress | Pianist | Obsession | Surgeon  | See more »

Taglines:

His love was pitiful...hopeless...madness...yet "The Thing" tired of pity - and demanded love! See more »

Genres:

Romance | Horror

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

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Also Known As:

The Hands of Orlac See more »

Box Office

Budget:

$257,502 (estimated)
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Company Credits

Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) See more »
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Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1
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Trivia

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.
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Connections

Featured in Monster Mania (1997) See more »

Soundtracks

"Etude Opus 10, no.4"
(uncredited)
Music by Frédéric Chopin See more »