Mad Love (1935 film)

John L. Balderston

Actress Yvonne Orlac Frances Drake rests after her final performance at the Thtre des Horreurs styled after the Grand Guignol in Paris, France. As she listens to her husband Stephen Orlac Colin Clive play the piano on the radio, she is greeted by Dr. Gogol Peter Lorre, who has seen every show featuring Yvonne, and unaware of her marriage, is aghast to learn that she is moving to England with her husband. Gogol leaves the theater heartbroken, buys the wax figure of Yvonnes character, refers to it as Galatea from the Greek myth, and arranges that it be delivered to his home the following day.Stephen Orlac is on a train journey from Fontainebleau to Paris, where he sees murderer Rollo the Knife thrower Edward Brophy, who is on the way to his execution by guillotine. Gogol later witnesses the execution, along with the American reporter Reagan Ted Healy. Orlacs train crashes later that night, and Yvonne finds her husband with mutilated hands. She takes Stephen to Gogol in an attempt to reconstruct his hands, and Gogol agrees to do so. Gogol uses Rollos hands for the transplant, and the operation is a success. ........

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