MAD LOVE aka THE HANDS OF ORLAC (1935)
When Parisian actress Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake) announces that she is leaving the stage to be a full-time wife to her concert-pianist husband, Stephen (Colin Clive), brilliant surgeon Dr. Gogol (Peter Lorre), who is obsessed with Yvonne, is crushed. So when Stephen loses his hands in a train wreck, Gogol agrees to Yvonne's request to graft another pair of hands onto him. But before long, Stephen realizes that these new hands seem to have a mind of their own. He can no longer play the piano — but he can throw knives with deadly accuracy! It turns out the hands belonged to an executed murderer, and they haven't lost the desire to kill. (Note adapted from Warner Bros.). DIR Karl Freund; SCR John L. Balderston, P.J. Wolfson, from a novel by Maurice Renard; PROD John W. Considine Jr. U.S., 1935, b&w, 68 min. NOT RATED
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Run Time: 68 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, July 20, 2024
Genre: Horror