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Mad Love (1935)

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Reviews Counted:8

Fresh:8

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Average Rating:7.5/10

Runtime: 83 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: Creepy Dr. Gogol just got a maniacally fine idea. Night after night, he watches with perverse glee as actress Yvonne's character is tortured and tormented in a play. Gogol later purchases a... Creepy Dr. Gogol just got a maniacally fine idea. Night after night, he watches with perverse glee as actress Yvonne's character is tortured and tormented in a play. Gogol later purchases a figurine of her and worships it. When Yvonne's pianist husband Stephen has to have his lucrative hands amputated, following a railway accident, Gogol decides to graft new hands onto Stephen's wrists. Not just anyone's limbs, either, for Gogol places the hands of an executed strangler where Stephen's used to be... [More]

Starring: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Isabel Jewell

Starring: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Isabel Jewell, Ted Healy, Sara Haden, Edward Brophy, Keye Luke

Director: Karl Freund

Director: Karl Freund
Producer: John Considine
Screenwriter: Guy Endore, P. J. Wolfson, John L. Balderston
Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin

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Wild Peter Lorre horror classic directed by great Karl Freund.

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Steve Crum
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The last half hour of Mad Love gets more and more strange until it becomes honestly horrifying.

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Peter Lorre's auspicious first appearance in a Hollywood-made film.

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Dennis Schwartz
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Fascinating, ultra-creepy tale

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Grim horror film from Karl Freund.

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