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...fetus, Dr. Brunkow felt some resistance: the mon ster's head was attached to the sac. Dr. Brunkow cut this attachment and then found that the inclusion's liver, which had developed outside its body, was also attached to the sac. Another nick of a scalpel freed Barbara Stobie of her ab normal burden and permitted Dr. Brunkow to close her up. He left the skin-like sac within her, to be removed at some more favorable time...
...Love (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This adaptation from Les Mains d'Orlac by Maurice Renard is one of the most completely horrible stories of the year. It presents Peter Lorre as a maniac surgeon who can do anything with a scalpel but nothing at all with Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake), an actress who has no use for him because she loves her pianist husband, Stephen (Colin Clive). When Stephen's hands are mangled in a railroad wreck, Dr. Gogol (Lorre) replaces them with the hands of a murderer who has that day been guillotined. Thereafter the hands of Orlac...
Thus Author Erich von Stroheim describes the preliminary grappling that leads to Paprika's fifth seduction. Before she is grudgingly made an honest woman she goes through eight such man-handlings. Modestly blurbed by Publisher Macaulay as a story that "uncovers with the blunt scalpel of realism the sadism inherent in the sexual plexus of a woman's being," Paprika takes the cake on several counts...
While all this was going on, Prisoner Hauptmann managed to steal a pewter spoon from his food tray, flatten its bowl, grind it razor-sharp, make a hooked scalpel of its handle. His jailers thought the taciturn German had planned to cut his throat or wrists one night, bleed to death, close the case in his own fashion...
Even the climax, when Lugoal skins Karloff alive with a scalpel, has little effect on the audience. In fact the only people who are bothered at all are the innocent bystanders in the play...