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Bibframe Work

Title
Mad love
Type
Moving Image
Monograph
Subject
Hand--Transplantation--Drama (LCSH)
Hand--Wounds and injuries--Drama (LCSH)
Surgeons--Drama (LCSH)
Hand--Wounds and injuries
Surgeons
Classification
LCC: DVE 8009 (viewing copy) (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
Moving Image Technique(s)
live action
Note
captions: : English
original text: : English
language: In English with optional English subtitles.
Summary
"In his American feature-film debut, Peter Lorre turns in one of his creepiest performances as a renowned plastic surgeon whose sadistic obsession with an actress drives him over the edge of sanity. Dr Gogol (Lorre) is in love with Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake), an actress whose appearance in a Grand Guignol-like horror theater has mesmerized him. She quits the theater to travel with her concert-pianist husband, Stephen (Colin Clive), enraging Gogol. But when Stephen's hands are crushed in a train accident, Yvonne turns to Gogol as a last resort. Motivated by sadistic intentions, Gogol secretly replaces Stephen's hands with those of a guillotined murderer, hoping that the operation will send Yvonne rushing into his arms as the murderer's hands take on a life of their own"--Back cover
Duration
PT68M
Origin Date(s)
1935
Authorized Access Point
Mad love