The Hands of Orlac (1960 film)

The Hands of Orlac
British original poster
Directed by	Edmond T. Gréville
Produced by	Steven Pallos Donald Taylor
Written by	Edmond T. Gréville Donald Taylor John V. Baines
Based on	Hands of Orlac by Maurice Renard
Starring	Mel Ferrer Dany Carrel Lucile Saint-Simon Christopher Lee Felix Aylmer Mireille Perrey
Music by	Claude Bolling
Cinematography	Desmond Dickinson
Edited by	Oswald Hafenrichter
Distributed by	Brittania Films (UK) Continental Films (US)
Release dates	December 1960 (UK) 13 May 1964 (US)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	France United Kingdom

The Hands of Orlac is a 1960 British-French horror film directed by Edmond T. Gréville, starring Mel Ferrer, Christopher Lee, and Dany Carrel,^[1] and based on the novel Les Mains d'Orlac by Maurice Renard.

Cast

The film was shot in both French and English versions.^[2]

↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/41381
↑ John Hamilton, The British Independent Horror Film 1951-70 Hemlock Books 2013 p 91-96

Organ transplantation in fiction

Novels and short stories	Les Mains d'Orlac (1920) A Gift from Earth (1968) Coma (1977) Pegasus in Flight (1990) Flatlander (1995) My Sister's Keeper (2004) Never Let Me Go (2005) Unwind (2007)

Films	The Hands of Orlac (1924) Frankenstein (1931) Mad Love (1935) The Hands of Orlac (1960) Hands of a Stranger (1962) Night of the Bloody Apes (1969) The Amazing Transplant (1970) Percy (1971) The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971) The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler (1971) The Thing with Two Heads (1972) Coma (1978) Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979) Fleisch (1979) The Man with Two Brains (1983) Body Parts (1991) The Eye (2002) Dirty Pretty Things (2002) 21 Grams (2003) The Island (2005) Turistas (2006) Awake (2007) Seven Pounds (2008) My Sister's Keeper (2009) Never Let Me Go (2010) The Harvest (2013) Pound of Flesh (2015)

Television	Spock's Brain (1968) The Brain of Morbius (1976) Appointment on Route 17 (1988) Phage (1995) Three Rivers (2009-2010) Coma (2012) iZombie (2015)

Music	"Gary Gilmore's Eyes" (1977)

Concepts	Organ trade Organlegging Brain transplantation Body horror

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