Mad Love (1935)

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Adaptation of the short story Les Mains D’Orlac

Mad Love

Karl Freund, director

Guy Endore Adaptation P.J. Wolfson and John L. Balderston, screenplay

Peter Lorre is a sadistic voyeur.

      Of course he has a morbid affection for guillotine executions also.

Le Théatre des Horreurs

Torturée, the wax image, is his object of infatuation, but she is merely a

The “real girl”, Madamme Orlac, is married to a brilliant pianist.

    His double cough means “I love you”.

Acknowledgement at 11:40

Orlac: Did you ever hear of Galatea?

Pygmalion formed her out of marble, not wax. … Then she came to life in his arms.

100 francs, if you deliver the statue to my house.

Lots of attention paid to hands.

When Stephen D’Orlac is maimed on the Fontainbleu Express, his hands will need to be treated.

Professor Golgol might be able to rescue them.

A hand transplant — Orlac’s crushed hands replaced with Rollo’s murderous but undamaged hands.

Is this the Lady of Shalotte?

He, however, thinks of her as Galatea. (29:00 he is playing the organ for her and reading poetry to her.

1:04:15

Galatea. I am Pygmalion. Give me your lips.

Each man kills the thing he loves.