Mad Love (1935)
(The Hands of Orlac)
Country: US
Technical: bw 83m
Director: Karl Freund
Cast: Colin Clive, Peter Lorre, Frances Drake
Synopsis:
A deranged surgeon conceives a consuming passion for an actress to the point of grafting a knife-murderer's hands onto the person of her injured husband, a concert pianist.
Review:
Lorre portrays erotic obsession in his own unique way in this extraordinary film, and Drake's eyes and eyebrows are as remarkable as his! The climax, in which a now murderous Lorre attempts to strangle her with her own hair, uttering the line, 'Each man kills the thing he loves', is particularly fitting in its pay-off. Indeed mad love doth destroy itself. The tale has been oft-filmed, in 1924 with Conrad Veidt and in 1960 with Mel Ferrer to name but two.
(The Hands of Orlac)
Country: US
Technical: bw 83m
Director: Karl Freund
Cast: Colin Clive, Peter Lorre, Frances Drake
Synopsis:
A deranged surgeon conceives a consuming passion for an actress to the point of grafting a knife-murderer's hands onto the person of her injured husband, a concert pianist.
Review:
Lorre portrays erotic obsession in his own unique way in this extraordinary film, and Drake's eyes and eyebrows are as remarkable as his! The climax, in which a now murderous Lorre attempts to strangle her with her own hair, uttering the line, 'Each man kills the thing he loves', is particularly fitting in its pay-off. Indeed mad love doth destroy itself. The tale has been oft-filmed, in 1924 with Conrad Veidt and in 1960 with Mel Ferrer to name but two.
(The Hands of Orlac)
Country: US
Technical: bw 83m
Director: Karl Freund
Cast: Colin Clive, Peter Lorre, Frances Drake
Synopsis:
A deranged surgeon conceives a consuming passion for an actress to the point of grafting a knife-murderer's hands onto the person of her injured husband, a concert pianist.
Review:
Lorre portrays erotic obsession in his own unique way in this extraordinary film, and Drake's eyes and eyebrows are as remarkable as his! The climax, in which a now murderous Lorre attempts to strangle her with her own hair, uttering the line, 'Each man kills the thing he loves', is particularly fitting in its pay-off. Indeed mad love doth destroy itself. The tale has been oft-filmed, in 1924 with Conrad Veidt and in 1960 with Mel Ferrer to name but two.