Mad Love

"A new, a strange, a gifted personality comes to the screen!"

Jul 12 1935 Approved 1h 8m
Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi

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.

Plot

In Paris, the great surgeon Dr. Gogol falls madly in love with stage actress Yvonne Orlac, and his ardor disturbs her quite a bit when he discovers to his horror that she is married to concert pianist Stephen Orlac. Shortly thereafter, Stephen's hands are badly crushed in a train accident- beyond the power of standard medicine. Knowing that his hands are his life, Yvonne overcomes her fear and goes to Dr. Gogol, to beg him to help. Gogol decides to surgically graft the hands of executed murderer Rollo onto Stephen Orlac, the surgery is successful but has terrible side-effects...

Written by

Maurice Renard, Florence Crewe-Jones, Guy Endore

Directed by

Karl Freund

Cast

Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Languages

English

Awards

1 nomination

Trailers
Mad Love Official Trailer #1 - Peter Lorre Movie (1935) HD
Mad Love (1935) Original Trailer [FHD]
Featurettes
Rick Baker on MAD LOVE
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