Category: Romance
All Genres: Romance, Horror
Release Year: 1935
Country: USA
Runtime: 68
Rating: 6.1 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Karl Freund
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

His love was pitiful...hopeless...madness...yet "The Thing" tired of pity - and demanded love!

A new, a strange, a gifted personality comes to the screen!

Dead hands that live... and love... and kill!

Writing by: Maurice Renard - (novel "Les Mains dOrlac")
Florence Crewe-Jones - (translation and adaptation: novel "The Hands of Orlac")
Guy Endore - (adaptation)
P.J. Wolfson - (screenplay) and
John L. Balderston - (screenplay)
Leon Wolfson - (contributing writer) uncredited and
Edgar Allan Woolf - (contributing writer) uncredited
Gladys Von Ettinghausen - (contributor to dialogue) uncredited and
Leon Gordon - (contributor to dialogue) uncredited

Produced by: John W. Considine Jr. - producer

Cast: Peter Lorre - Doctor Gogol
Frances Drake - Yvonne Orlac
Colin Clive - Stephen Orlac
Ted Healy - Reagan, the American Reporter
Sara Haden - Marie, Yvonnes Maid
Edward Brophy - Rollo the Knife Thrower
Henry Kolker - Prefect Rosset
Keye Luke - Dr. Wong, Gogols Assistant
May Beatty - Françoise, Gogols Housekeeper
George Davis - Chauffeur (scenes deleted)
Billy Dooley - Undetermined Role (scenes deleted)

Music: Dimitri Tiomkin R.H. Bassett David Snell
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Plot Outline: An insane surgeons obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianists hands with the hands of a knife murderer which still have the urge to throw knives.
Plot: In Paris, the great surgeon Dr. Gogol falls madly in love with stage actress Yvonne Orlac, and his ardor disturbs her quite a bit when he discovers to his horror that she is married to concert pianist Stephen Orlac. Shortly thereafter, Stephens hands are badly crushed in a train accident- beyond the power of standard medicine. Knowing that his hands are his life, Yvonne overcomes her fear and goes to Dr. Gogol, to beg him to help. Gogol decides to surgically graft the hands of executed murderer Rollo onto Stephen Orlac, the surgery is successful but has terrible side-effects...

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Introducing Sally Field as "Mercy" and introducing Katherine Justice.

Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Factual errors: Lee Irving fires his six-shooter revolver eight times without reload it.

Trivia: There are 11 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Peter Lorre was under contract to Columbia Pictures. He agreed to be loaned out to MGM for this film if Columbia would do a film version of Crime and Punishment (1935/I) with him in the role of Raskolnikov.
• The close-ups of the wax statue are actually Frances Drake in makeup.
• Easily recognized actors who are supposed to be in this movie according to studio records and/or casting call lists include Harold Huber, Isabel Jewell, George Davis, Billy Dooley and Leo White. However, they were not seen.

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