8:00 PM
86 min
horror
Hands of a Stranger (1962)
An experimental hand transplant leaves a pianist driven to kill.
Dir: Newt Arnold Cast: Paul Lukather , Joan Harvey , James Stapleton .
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I do not believe I have seen this version, I look forward to it!
9:45 PM
89 min
TV-PG
suspense
Beast With Five Fingers, The (1946)
After a famous pianist's murder, his hand returns to wreak vengeance.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast: Robert Alda , Andrea King , Peter Lorre .
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LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Robert Florey. Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, J Carrol Naish. Intriguing if not entirely successful mood piece about aging pianist and strange doings in his household. Lorre's confrontation with disembodied hand a horror highlight.
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While not quite a version of ORLAC, this one is rather amusing as P. Lorre's imagination gets the best of him!
11:30 PM
68 min
TV-PG
horror
Mad Love (1935)
A mad doctor grafts the hands of a murderer on to a concert pianist's wrists.
Dir: Karl Freund Cast: Peter Lorre , Frances Drake , Colin Clive .
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LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Karl Freund. Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy, Sara Haden, Edward Brophy, Keye Luke. Famous Hands of Orlac story refitted for Lorre as mad Paris surgeon in love with married Drake. He agrees to operate on her pianist husband's injured hands, with disastrous results. Stylishly directed by legendary cameraman Freund; only debit is unwelcome comedy relief by Healy.
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This one is also rather amusing for those with sicko sense of humor!
12:45 AM
113 min
TV-14
silent
Hands of Orlac, The (1925)
An experimental graft gives an injured concert pianist the hands of a murderer.
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LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:
D: Robert Wiene. Conrad Veidt, Fritz Kortner, Carmen Cartellieri, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Strassny. Veidt is an eerie presence as Paul Orlac, a celebrated pianist whose hands are crushed in a train wreck; a strange doctor replaces them with those of an executed killer. Genuinely spooky chiller, adapted from the Maurice Renard story and made by the director of THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI. Remade in 1935 (as MAD LOVE) and 1961.
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THE HANDS OF ORLAC (article at TCM)
For those for whom the name Conrad Veidt is unfamiliar, he portrays the German officer whom Bogart's character shoots at the end of Casablanca.
When I was a kid and read Forry Ackermans FMOF, he was always saying how "Mad Love" had been banned. 
