Karl Freund directed this stylish and creepy film starring Peter Lorre(memorable in a star-making performance) as Doctor Gogol, a lonely surgeon madly in love with stage actress Yvonne Orlac, though his affection is sadly spurned because she is already married to a successful pianist(played by Colin Clive). When his hands are later damaged in a train accident, his only hope for recovery is...Dr. Gogol! Desperate, Yvonne begs him to help her husband, and he agrees, but uses the hands of recently executed murderer Rollo, who seems to pass on his strangling ways to the pianist. Can Yvonne save her husband, and stop Gogol? Effective horror film holds up well today, though Gogol may provoke laughter as much as fear...(Nothing wrong with that here though!)
Review of Mad Love
