What is The Beast with Five Fingers / Mad Love about?

Name: The Beast with Five Fingers / Mad Love
Genre: Horror,Romance

THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS, 1946, Warner Bros., 88 min. Dir. Robert Florey. Volatile concert pianist Francis Ingram (Victor Francen) has left his Italian estate to his American nurse (Andrea King), much to the chagrin of an avaricious brother and nephew. Peter Lorre is the dead musician’s mentally unbalanced librarian who becomes convinced that his late employer’s left hand, missing from the corpse, is creeping about the villa, bent on murdering all those who oppose Ingram’s last testament. MAD LOVE, 1935, Warner Bros., 68 min. Dir. Karl Freund. Grand Guignol theatre star Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake) goes to surgeon Dr. Gogol (Peter Lorre) when her concert pianist husband Stephen (Colin Clive) has his hands mangled in a train accident. Gogol, in love with Yvonne, transplants the hands of a guillotined murderer onto the comatose Stephen. Counting on the highly-suggestive nature of the neurotic pianist, Gogol makes him believe he also possesses the dead killer’s personality.

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What is The Beast with Five Fingers / Mad Love about?: THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS, 1946, Warner Bros., 88 min. Dir. Robert Florey. Volatile concert pianist Francis Ingram (Victor Francen) has left his Italian estate to his American nurse (Andrea King), much to the chagrin of an avaricious brother and nephew. Peter Lorre is the dead musician’s mentally unbalanced librarian who becomes convinced that his late employer’s left hand, missing from the corpse, is creeping about the villa, bent on murdering all those who oppose Ingram’s last testament.
MAD LOVE, 1935, Warner Bros., 68 min. Dir. Karl Freund. Grand Guignol theatre star Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake) goes to surgeon Dr. Gogol (Peter Lorre) when her concert pianist husband Stephen (Colin Clive) has his hands mangled in a train accident. Gogol, in love with Yvonne, transplants the hands of a guillotined murderer onto the comatose Stephen. Counting on the highly-suggestive nature of the neurotic pianist, Gogol makes him believe he also possesses the dead killer’s personality.