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The Hands of
Orlac. |
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Grand
Guignol Horror |
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A pianist
injures his hands in a train accident and the surgeon |
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grafts on
those of a murderer. Enough said? Lorre plays the |
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mad doctor.
The Three Stooges provide inappropriate comic |
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Good story
telling, even though we know it couldn't happen |
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we're
interested in how it works out. And of course there's the |
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metaphorical
edge. Ironically something of a reverse |
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scenario
happened when a New Zealand man who was later |
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found to
have been convicted of fraud was given the first arm |
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transplant
in France about 2 years ago. |
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From the
novel Les Mains d'Orlac by Maurice Renard |
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n.b. Grand
Guignol describing a series of short scenes or |
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tableaux is
derived from a theatre of that name in Paris. |
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The 1995
film "Mad Love" with Drew Barrymore is not a |
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Notes
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