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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.
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
Aug 20, 2019 · Adapted from the 1935 expressionist film starring Peter Lorre, the play tells the dark tale of a brilliant surgeon who replaces the damaged hands of a concert pianist with the hands of a murderer. Dell'Arte Players Company presents its international touring production, MAD LOVE (L'AMOUR FOU).
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The brilliant surgeon, Doctor Gogol, is obsessed with Yvonne Orlac, the beautiful star of the Parisian Horror Theatre and wife of renown pianist Stephen Orlac. In fact, he's so entranced with her beauty that he steals a life-size replica of her from the theatre lobby to worship privately in his own study.
- Karl Freund, John Langan, Dolph Zimmer
- Peter Lorre
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.
Mad Love (1935) tells the story of an actress named Yvonne Orlac who has completed her run at the Theatre des Horreurs in Paris, France. Looking forward to spending more time with her pianist husband, Stephen Orlac, she is unaware of the fact that Dr. Gogol is obsessed with her and has seen each of her performances.
