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Ep 128 - MAD LOVE (1935) at 90 | Peter Lorre, Colin Clive, Frances Drake | (Film Discussion)
MAD LOVE (1935) d. Karl Freund (USA)
Based on Maurice Renard's 1920 French serialized novel The Hands of Orlac, in which the hands of a murderer are transplanted onto an injured concert pianist, Mad Love is remembered above all for Peter Lorre's stunning performance as Dr. Gogol, a brilliant surgeon driven mad by obsessive love.
Lorre, fresh from his success in Fritz Lang's M (1931), delivers one of the genre's's most unsettling portrayals of pathological fixation. He is incredibly well-supported by Frances Drake as Yvonne Orlac, star of the Grand Guignol, and Dr. Frankenstein himself Colin…
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