30 Nights of Terror Oct.6

When Peter Lorre was acting in Fritz Lang's M , his night job was singing and hoofing in a musical comedy. Lorre always seems a very modern actor, even in an early film like Mad Love aka The Hands of Orlac. Cinematographer Karl Freund directed, Gregg Toland was dp. A digression: in Pauline Kael's The Citizen Kane Book, she presents stills from ML ( Lorre in baldpate, the drunken housekeeper's pet cockatoo) with similar images from Citizen Kane, visual ammo for her controversial theory that Kane did not spring Athenalike from Orson Welles' head. Toland, of course, was the cameraman on Kane and, I guess, responsible for Mad Love's lively Vorkapich montages.
Lorre is Professor Gogol, a brilliant surgeon who can restore lost limbs. He's hopelessly enamored of an actress, Yvonne Orlac. Nightly he visits the strange theatre where she performs and ogles her wax figure in the lobby. Yvonne appreciates Orlac's attentions as a fan but she's devoted to her concert pianist husband Stephen Orlac ( Colin Clive). When Orlac's hands are crushed in an accident, Gogol sees a chance to win his beloved. As this film can be seen free on TCM on demand, I suggest you check it out. Seventy three minutes of delicious weirdness. Another magesterial American movie seems to have nicked a detail from Mad Love. Can you guess its title?