Review – The Hands of Orlac (1935)

The original US release title of this movie was Mad Love. However, I’ve gone with the British title because it’s more interesting, more descriptive and closer to the French title of the source novel. Peter Lorre makes his American film debut as a mad doctor obsessed with the star of a torture-themed stage show. When the lady’s brilliant pianist husband loses his hands in a train wreck, the good doctor fixes things by transplanting the hands of a recently-executed, knife-throwing murderer. Or perhaps “attempts to fix things” would be a better description. Mildly amusing