72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Mad Love

Karl Freund
USA
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Madly in love with the actress Yvonne Orlac, famous Doctor Gogol is fraught with jealousy at the thought of her happy marriage to a pianist. Desperate when her husband loses his hands in a train accident, the young wife turns to the doctor for help. Obsessed with the girl, the doctor accepts, but fiendishly gives him the hands of a dead criminal. A great success, the operation has terrible after effects. 

This is a remake of a silent film shot in 1924.

Director
Karl Freund
Screenplay
P. J. Wolfson, Guy Endore, John Balderston
Plot
The Hands of Orlac (Maurice Renard)
Photography
Chester Lyons, Gregg Toland
Music
Dimitri Tiomkin
Cast
Colin Clive, Peter Lorrre, Frances Drake, Ted Healy
Running Time
67 m.
Country
USA
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