In Paris, a demented surgeon's obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert-pianist husband's mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer with a gift for knife-throwing..


Is it worth your time? If you like movies where the villain is just a guy with a bad haircut and a worse personality, yes. It's a short, punchy 68 minutes. If you need logic or medical realism, look elsewhere. You'll probably hate it if you can't stand old movies that move at a slightly different pace than today's ADHD...


Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Karl Freund

Raoul Walsh
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"Is it worth your time? If you like movies where the villain is just a guy with a bad haircut and a worse personality, yes. It's a short, punchy 68 minutes. If you need logic or medical realism, look elsewhere. You'll probably hate it if you can't stand old movies that move at a slightly different pace than today's ADHD-fueled cinema. Peter Lorre. My god, the man could do more with his eyes than most actors can do with a whole script. He plays Dr. Gogol, and he is just uncomfortably obsessed wit..."
Leon Gordon, Maurice Renard, Florence Crewe-Jones, P.J. Wolfson, Leon Wolfson, Guy Endore, Gladys Von Ettinghausen, John L. Balderston, Edgar Allan Woolf
United States
Romance, Sci-Fi, Horror

