Mad Love 1935 Ages 15+
Production still from Mad Love 1935 / Director: Karl Freund / Image courtesy: Roadshow Films / View full image
When
6.00pm, Fri 31 May 2024 (68 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
About
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+
Production Credits
- Director: Karl Freund
- Script: PJ Wolfson, John L Balderston
- Based on: the novel 'Les Mains d'Orlac' by Maurice Renard
- Cinematographers: Chester A Lyons, Gregg Toland
- Editor: Hugh Wynn
- Cast: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive
- Print Source: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Canberra
- Rights: Roadshow Films
- Year: 1935
- Runtime: 68 minutes
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Colour: Black & White
- Shooting Format: 35mm
- Screening Format: 16mm