Las manos de Orlac

Título original: Mad Love

1935
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1h 8min

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Peter Lorre and Frances Drake in Las manos de Orlac (1935)

Paris, France: a demented surgeon's obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert pianist husband's train-wreck-mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer. . . with a gift for knife-throwing.

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Marie
(as Sarah Haden)

Edward Brophy

Rollo

Henry Kolker

Prefect Rosset

Keye Luke

Dr. Wong

May Beatty

Françoise - Gogol's Housekeeper

George Davis

Chauffeur
(escenas eliminadas)

Billy Dooley

Undetermined Role
(escenas eliminadas)

Harold Huber

Thief
(escenas eliminadas)

Isabel Jewell

Marianne
(escenas eliminadas)

Leo White

Undetermined Role
(escenas eliminadas)

Sam Ash

Detective Arresting Stephen
(sin acreditar)

Hooper Atchley

Train Conductor
(sin acreditar)

Agostino Borgato

Stage Doorman
(sin acreditar)

Maurice Brierre

Taxi Driver
(sin acreditar)

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Curiosidades
Charles Chaplin called Lorre the screen's best actor after seeing his performance in "Mad Love."

Pifias
Throughout the picture, the wax figure moves slightly whenever Frances Drake is subbing for the actual statue. Most noticeable when the bird lands on her shoulder, making the "lifeless" statue sway.

Citas
Françoise, Gogol's Housekeeper: [referring to the wax figure of Yvonne] It went out for a little walk!

Créditos adicionales
At the end of the opening credits, the titles are painted on a glass window pane that is broken by a fist punching through it.

Versiones alternativas
Phil Hardy's The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction (p. 94) states that there is an 85-minute version of the film, although he provides no details about this.

Conexiones
Edited into The History of the Hands (2016)

Banda sonora
Etude Opus 10, no.4
(1830) (uncredited)
Music by Frédéric Chopin

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8/10

Feverish horror romance from MGM and director Karl Freund

When acclaimed concert pianist Stephen Orlac (Colin Clive) is in a terrible accident, his hands are crushed and must be amputated. His wife Yvonne (Frances Drake) appeals to the brilliant Dr. Gogol (Peter Lorre) to use his surgical genius to save Stephen's hands. Gogol accepts as he's madly in love with Yvonne, but instead of saving Stephen's hands, he replaces them with those from an executed murderer.

This was Lorre's first American film, and one of his very best performances ever. He's at once menacingly creepy and pathetically sympathetic, a brilliant mind trapped in an ugly body, deeply in love with someone he can never have. I also really like Drake as the object of affection, beautiful, classy and empathetic. Lorre's costume late in the film is a visual highlight of 1930's film, and the moody cinematography is excellent. Recommended.