A discussion of the classic 1935 Peter Lorre horror film...
I'm really excited for this one. I finally watched the 1935 horror film Mad Love earlier this year and it instantly became one of my favorites. It features a top performance by the weird maestro himself, Peter Lorre, and a wonderfully crazed performance by Colin Clive -- in addition to just a host of bizarre plot elements including hand transplants, haunted limbs, mirrors, wax doubles, psychological manipulation and knife-throwing.
As we discuss in the podcast episode, it also features a particularly haunting sequence in which Peter Lorre's Dr. Gogol discussions himself as a recently executed criminal, complete with mechanical hands and an elaborate head-reattachment brace. Let's take a look at that sequence:
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