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Featuring Ted Healy (Solo)
67.7 min. (Feature Film)
Acclaimed Paris surgeon Dr. Gogol (Peter Lorre) falls in love with stage actress Yvonne Orlac, and is heartbroken to learn that she recently married the famous concert pianist Stephen Orlac (Colin Clive). Stephen's hands are crushed in a train accident, and at Yvonne's request, Gogol performs surgery to save them... but unknown to the Orlacs, Gogol amputates and grafts on the hands of executed knife murderer Rollo. At first Orlac is disappointed to learn he may never play the piano again, but is soon horrified by a new-found fascination and skill with knives. Gogol inflames Stephen's mental instability, frames him for murder, and with Orlac out of the way, Gogol hopes to win the love of Yvonne.
Ted Healy plays an American reporter covering the execution of Rollo, who finds himself investigating Gogol's disposition of Rollo's body, and Stephen's murder case.
Peter Lorre
Doctor Gogol
Frances Drake
Yvonne Orlac
Colin Clive
Stephen Orlac
Ted Healy
Reagan
Sara Haden
Marie
Edward Brophy
Rollo
Ian Wolfe
Henry Orlac
Henry Kolker
Prefect Rosset
Keye Luke
Dr. Wong
May Beatty
Francoise
Charles Trowbridge
Dr. Marbeau
Edward Norris
Man outside theatre
Mary Jo Mathews
Woman outside theatre
Robert Emmett Keane
Drunk
Agostino Borgato
Stage doorman
Murray Kinnell
Charles, theatre official
Carl Stockdale
Actor, as 'Notary'
Ramsay Hill
Actor, as 'Duke'
Marc Loebell
Actor, as 'Prince'
Monte Vandergrift
Man in audience
Johnny Arthur
Man in audience
Herbert Evans
Actor at party
Frank Darien
Lanvin, waxworks proprietor
Billy Gilbert
Man on train
Christian J. Frank
Detective on train
Robert Graves
Detective on train
Hooper Atchley
Train conductor
Alphonse Ethier
Assistant Prefect
Cora Sue Collins
Child patient
Julie Carter
Nurse
Harvey Clark
Station Master
Michael Mark
Execution official
George Davis
Chauffeur
Nell Craig
Suzanne, nurse
Clarence H. Wilson
Piano creditor
Edward Lippy
Henry Orlac's clerk
Rolfe Sedan
Traffic gendarme
Sarah Padden
Patient's mother
Matt Roubert
Newsboy
Earl Pingree
Detective interviewing clerk
Roger Gray
Detective arresting Orlac
Sam Ash
Detective arresting Orlac
Jacques Vanaire
Police broadcaster
Rollo Lloyd
Varsac, fingerprint expert
Russ Powell
Gendarme
Maurice Brierre
Taxi driver
Otto Hoffman
Blind man
Isabel Jewell
Marianne, scene deleted
Bill Dooley
scene deleted
Harold Huber
Thief, scene deleted
Karl Freund
Director
John W. Considine
Producer
Maurice Renard
Novel
Florence Crewe-Jones
Translation and Adaptation
Guy Endore
Adaptation
P. J. Wolfson
Screenplay
Gladys Von Ettinghausen
Screenplay
John L. Balderston
Screenplay
Edgar Allan Woolf
Screenplay
Leon Gordon
Screenplay
Leon Wolfson
Screenplay
Chester A. Lyons
Photography
Gregg Toland
Photography
Hugh Wynn
Film Editor
Cedric Gibbons
Art Director
Edwin B. Willis
Associate Art Director
William A. Horning
Associate Art Director
Douglas Shearer
Recording Director
Oscar Radin
Musical Director
Leonid Raab
Orchestrator
Jack Virgil
Orchestrator
Charles Maxwell
Orchestrator
Paul Marquardt
Orchestrator
David Snell
Original Music
R. H. Bassett
Original Music
Dimitri Tiomkin
Musical Score
Dolly Tree
Wardrobe
Dolph Zimmer
Assistant Director
John Langan
Dialogue Director
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