A.I.D.S Amnesia Amputee Autism Blind Cancer Deaf Disfigurement Dwarf General Learning Difficulty Limb Mental Polio Stuttering Recommended by Title Recommended by Disability 
| Limb & Spinal Conditions: Minor Films no photo.
| Title | Mad Love (1935) | | Alternative/Original Title | The Hands of Orlac. | | Disability | Limb | | Country | USA | | Length | 70 | | Genre | Grand Guignol Horror | | Rating | 4 | | Director | Karl Freund
| | Cast | Peter Lorre Colin Clive Frances Drake The Three Stooges
| | Notes | B/W. A pianist injures his hands in a train accident and the surgeon grafts on those of a murderer. Enough said? Lorre plays the mad doctor. The Three Stooges provide inappropriate comic relief. Good story telling, even though we know it couldn't happen we're interested in how it works out. And of course there's the metaphorical edge. Ironically something of a reverse scenario happened when a New Zealand man who was later found to have been convicted of fraud was given the first arm transplant in France about 2 years ago. From the novel Les Mains d'Orlac by Maurice Renard n.b. Grand Guignol describing a series of short scenes or tableaux is derived from a theatre of that name in Paris. The 1995 film "Mad Love" with Drew Barrymore is not a remake.
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