"A new, a strange, a gifted personality comes to the screen!"

1935

1h 8m

7.0(126 votes)

Horror

Thriller

Overview

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.

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Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Peter Lorre

Doctor Gogol

Frances Drake

Yvonne Orlac

Colin Clive

Stephen Orlac

Ted Healy

Reagan

Isabel Jewell

Marianne (scenes deleted)

Sara Haden

Marie

Edward Brophy

Rollo

Henry Kolker

Prefect Rosset

Keye Luke

Dr. Wong

May Beatty

Françoise

Creative team

Directed by: Karl Freund
Written by: P.J. Wolfson
John L. Balderston
Produced by: John W. Considine Jr.

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