Mad Love

Mad Love

1935 · 68 min · EN · 7.0 (128 votes)
Dir. Karl Freund · Starring Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy, Isabel Jewell, Sara Haden · Music David Snell

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

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An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.

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A darkly romantic, Grand Guignol fever dream. This pre-code horror is a melodramatic descent into obsession, where love and madness intertwine with grotesque body horror and unsettling atmosphere.

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