MAD LOVE
MAD LOVE is one of my favorite non-Universal horror films of the '30s. Lorre is at his maddest in this bizarre story directed by Karl Freund. The current Heritage auction includes a rare Australian...
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Interesting thought, Craig. But there just was no menace in Brophy, and I think for the tension to really have effect later in the film after the hands are grafted onto Clive and the strangeness...
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Just imagine Conrad Veidt in that train instead of Brody. With no lines. Just tossing imaginary knives. Constantly. Compulsively.
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I disagree with Brophy being that much of a flaw as I don't see this movie at all as a possession movie. It is a psychological film, not a the devil made him do it film. EVERYTHING which happens in...
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Interesting interpretation, Atenolol. I haven't seen Mad Love in ages. There's an opn endedness to it that makes it unique. No ghosts and goblins in this one. It's in a class by itself and yet it is a...
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while Mark of the Vampire is deeply flawed by the non-supernatural explanation, Mad Love gains from it. You don't have to believe the soul of the murderer is controlling Stephen Orlac through...
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Mad Love was definitely a product of its time regarding transplants, commonplace now, unheard of then. I like Mark Of the Vampire for its non-Universal atmosphere, as it feels very like an MGM attempt...
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Sticking with a more practically rooted interpretation, there is the reality of muscle memory. Ask any violinist, piano player or virtuoso musician. It is why they can play faster and with more...
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Yes, that final throw was something to see, Dr. Gogol . Very effective. The film's excellence makes me wish that Karl freund had directed more films and that Colin Clive had lived a lot longer than he...
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Still would have preferred a more ambiguous storyline and resolution, provided by a more nefarious villain than pumpkin pie Brophy. Was Colin Clive possessed by the spirit of the murderous hands, and...
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One does wonder, Mora, what will become of Clive's character. Long term, I mean. The illogocality of the story doesn't bother me particularly, as I don't expect logic in a film of this sort, though I...
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I've wondered if Brophy's Rollo character could be the same one he played in FREAKS. I'm sure he's not, but an interesting thought, anyway.
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I've wondered about Brophy's having the same name in both those Browning films, too FOD. My sense is that he wasn't playing the same character, that the name was more of an in-joke than anything else;...
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I also think the two Rollos were different characters, but I know I've read comments from others (somewhere), casually accepting that they were indeed the same guy.
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You're probably right, Rick, though Rollo isn't, wasn't even then, a common name, but maybe it just suited Brophy. That Mad Love and Freaks were both MGM probably has something to do with it. Brophy...
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Telegonus... I like to think that all the shenanigans with knives end with the death of Gogol. Five years or so later, Orlac's hands have improved to the point where he can use them for normal life,...
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Yes, you're probbaly right, Elisabeth, regarding the kind of ending L.B. was have approved of. Fortunately, Irving Thalberg was still alive when Mad Love was made, thus it ends strangely,--as it should.
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Absolutely, Telegonus... Thank G-D for Irving Thalberg. The vast promise of MAD LOVE and the possibilities of MARK OF THE VAMPIRE were hijacked by Andy Hardy. If it weren't for Thalberg, they wouldn't...
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