Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive
A renowned plastic surgeon replaces the crushed hands of a pianist with those of a guillotined murderer. The murderer's hands soon take on a life of their own.
DVD Release Date: September 30, 1992
Stats: 95 reviews
This campy and highly melodramatic horror movie is notable as the American debut of Peter Lorre. This being the second adaptation of the Hands of Orlac story has a lousy title that sounds like a musical comedy which features Renee Zellweger. Fortunately, Mad Love happens to be ...( read more)
Peter Lorre gives another wonderfully creepy performance as brilliant but off his rocker Dr. Gogol. He is in love with actress Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake). She is married to a concert pianist (Colin Clive). When Orlac's hands are crushed in a train accident, Yvonne goes to him f...( read more)
muahahahahaha! peter lorre's first hollywood film is a remake of the german silent horror orlacs hande, in which a mad doctor grafts a murderer's hands onto a pianist. fantastic campy performance
Demented surgeon Gogol (Peter Lorre) grafts new hands onto a concert pianist who is also the husband of the woman he loves. Trouble is, he chooses hands that once belonging to a murderer. Lorre's hammy yet tragic performance is the main attraction here.
This is seriously a hidden gem. I had read "The Hands of Orlac" by Maurice Renard and loved it. Peter Lorre impressed me with "M" but this was quite a novelty seeing him as the obsessed Dr. Gogol. I know this is a remake of the 1924 Austrian silent movie version, under the same n...( read more)
It felt like a foreign film as I just found out that it is a remake of a German film. Strange context and subject matter. A really cool film. Lorre is very good as the obsessed surgeon.
Lorre is magnificent! MAD LOVE is the sort of gothic macabre masterpiece Tim Burton used to make.
This one's a lot of fun with Lorre!
I kind of like how at the end I assume that Mr.Orlac probably still goes around throwing knives at people after the credits roll because that really didn't get resolved did it?
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Some corrections: Isabel Jewell was not actually in the film, though her name appeared on the movie posters. Also, the film was released in 1935, not 1949.
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