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Starring Peter Lorre, one of Hollywood's greatest character actors, Mad Love is the tale of a controversial surgeon who grafts the hands of an executed murderer onto an badly injured pianist. The operation is a success, but the pianist soon finds that the hands may have a mind of their own.

Directed by Karl Freund — the cinematographer on German Expressionist classics such as The Last Laugh 1924 and Metropolis 1927, as well as the director of Dracula 1931 — the film is an adaptation of Maurice Renard's novel The Hands of Orlac, previously adapted for screen by Robert Wiene. It is a pulpy thriller, soaked in inky black shadows and electrified by Lorre's chilling performance as the obsessive surgeon who pushes past the limits of science.

Ages 15+