Episode 343: Mad Love (1935)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2017

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Summary

Shocktober 2017 kicks off with Karl Freund's final film as a director and Peter Lorre's film film in America, Mad Love (1935). Based upon Maurice Renard 's The Hands of Orlac, the film shifts focus from the titular Orlac to Dr. Gogol, a cunning physician who specializes in some questionable procedures. He’s fascinated by the actress Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake) and, rebuffed in his advances, manages to enter her life after he backhandedly helps her husband, concert pianist Stephen Orlac (Colin Clive), by giving him a new pair of hands after his have been crushed in an accident. But what kind of gift are the hands of a murderer on a master musician?
Samm Deighan joins Mike to discuss the unusual American debut from Peter Lorre along with special guests Gregory W. Mank (Hollywood Cauldron: Thirteen Horror Films from the Genre's Golden Age) and Stephen D. Youngkin (The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre).
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.7	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:28.3	Yeah. Here, this is Peter Laurie speaking. I couldn't resist the temptation to call you.
0:31.6	I just read of your new picture that you ought to make.
0:33.9	Oh, that's very nice of you.
0:35.1	Thanks for your interest.
0:36.4	Oh, I thought you were magnificent in M.
0:39.3	And just the other night I saw your new picture, demand him too much.
0:42.3	What character are you going to play in?
0:44.3	Oh, it's the most unusual story.
0:47.3	You know, it's a great love drama.
0:50.3	I am to be a half-mad scientist. I, a poor peasant, have conquered science.
0:58.0	Why can't I conquer love?
1:01.0	He shall be shut up when it's I, who am mad.
1:08.0	But nobody knows that. Each man kills the thing he loves
1:13.6	he loves Oh, Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Welcome to the projection booth. I'm your host, Mike White.
2:13.2	Joining me once again is Ms. Sam Deegan.
2:15.5	Hello.
2:16.7	We are kicking off Shacktober month with Mad Love.
2:20.8	It is the story of Matt and Casey, Seattle teens, that find love.
2:24.6	However, Casey suffers from clinical depression and is hospitalized for a suicide attempt.
2:29.3	Matt, caring for Casey too much to leave her, helps her escape from from the hospital and they take to the road.
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