Mad Love (1935 film)

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Mad Love

1935 Film Poster
Directed by Karl Freund
Produced by John W. Considine Jr.
Starring Peter Lorre
Frances Drake
Colin Clive
Music by Dimitri Tiomkin
Distributed by MGM
Release date(s) July 12, 1935 (U.S. release)
Running time 68 min
Language English
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Mad Love is a 1935 horror film starring Peter Lorre, Frances Drake and Colin Clive. When the film was released, some countries banned the film while others cut out the violent scenes. The film is an adaptation of Maurice Renard’s novel Les Mains d'Orlac (1920). This classic horror movie was Lorre's first American movie role.

A concert pianist loses his hands after a horrible train wreck. The hands of a killer, and expert knife thrower, are sewn on. Unfortunately, now the man has murderous thoughts and the hand skills of the man who owned them before him. Meanwhile, the brilliant doctor, Doctor Gogol, is in love with the man's wife and will do anything to have her. Lorre plays the bald insane doctor.

On its initial release Mad Love was one of the few Horror films to bomb at the box-office in the 1930's, losing about $39,000,. As with most movies of the genre, it received largely negative reviews, Time Magazine stating, "This is the type of film that brought about censorship."

Over time the film has gained a cult following and is now regarded as a horror classic. Film critic Richard Scheib's 2000 review notes, "The role of Gogol is the one that solidified Lorre with American audiences and ensured a career in horror and noir that lasted until his death in 1964." [1]


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