Also Known As	The Hands of Orlac
Genre	Horror :: Romance
Date Released	12 July 1935
Production	Danjaq
Distribution	American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
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Trivia and Quotes

Trivia

Peter Lorre was under contract to Columbia Pictures. He agreed to be loaned out to MGM for this film if Columbia would do a film version of Crime and Punishment (1935/I) with him in the role of Raskolnikov.

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The close-ups of the wax statue are actually Frances Drake in makeup.

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Easily recognized actors who are supposed to be in this movie according to studio records and/or casting call lists include Harold Huber, Isabel Jewell, George Davis, Billy Dooley and Leo White. However, they were not seen.

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The Hays Office cautioned the studio about showing scenes of the dead, injured or dying after the train wreck. Some countries banned the film altogether, while others cut the scenes of torture, guillotining and strangulation.

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The line "Each man kills the thing he loves" comes from Oscar Wilde`s poem, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol".

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Peter Lorre`s first American film.

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May Beatty`s declaration about the wax figure, "It went for a little walk!" is a clear echo of a similar line from The Mummy (1932), also written by John L. Balderston and directed by Karl Freund.

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The original titles were to contain a spoken warning in a manner similar to Frankenstein (1931) also written by Balderston, but that was abandoned in favor of the more original idea of the titles on a window climaxed by a fist smashing it.

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Charles Chaplin called Lorre the screen`s best actor after seeing his performance in "Mad Love."

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The last directorial effort of famed cinematographer Karl Freund.

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A torn poster of this movie, with its Spanish translation "Las manos de Orlac", appears in Malcolm Lowry`s Under the Volcano, as a symbol for the intricate novel`s plot that subsumes as dissension between mind and body of its anti-hero protagonist.

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SPOILER: In the original script the little girl dies in surgery because Gogol is so distracted. In the finished film, his mental distraction causes him to leave the operation and it is successfully completed by Dr. Wong.

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