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   Jack Bohn to All   
   Fantastic Classics: "Mad Love" (1935)   
   11 Jul 17 06:19:43   
   
   From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   Thursday the 13th is a day of horrors on Turner Classic Movies.  Some extend   
   into supernatural horror, or, here, science fiction.  It posits a doctor able   
   to perform hand transplants, and the cliche side effect of gaining another's   
   organs.  Dr. Gogol is    
   played by Peter Lorre.  It's said Fritz Lang's "M" typecast Lorre for life,   
   this movie carries that type as far as I've ever seen it!   
      
   Others on their schedule --    
   those I can confirm to be fantastical:   
    "Scared to Death" (1947)   
    "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" (1962)   
    "The Terror" (1963)   
    "The Sorcerers" (1967)   
      
   those open to a supernatural explanation:   
    "The Seventh Victim" (1943)   
    "The Leopard Man" (1943)   
    "Horror Hotel" (1960)   
   (The first two are Val Lewtons, and that's his schtick.  I don't remember if   
   the last offered an irrefutable manifestation, or just declined to rationalize   
   away the events.)   
      
   unknown, but I'm guessing human horror:   
    "The Hidden Hand" (1942)   
    "The Plumber" (1979)   
      
   Which should prime audiences to believe or not believe the story of "Lost   
   Horizon" whose 1937 movie is the prime time offering.   
      
   --    
   -Jack   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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