I took these photos off my TV the other night, with my iPhone, whilst watching Mad Love on Turner Classic Movies (the 1935 horror film about the brilliant but creepy doctor who tries to steal the wife of one of his patients, not the Drew Barrymore movie about manic depressive teenage runaways. It was Peter Lorre night.) This post partially exists to see if I can successfully blog from the iPhone WordPress App. It’s also an excuse to repeat two of my favorite lines from Mad Love.

1. Frances Drake tells Lorre’s Gogol that even if she didn’t love her husband, the doctor would still be too scary for her to consider dating him. “You are cruel!” he cries. Then he reconsiders.”But only to be kind.”

2. Later in the same scene, our heroine figures out that the doctor has used his medical genius to try and break up her and her husband. Gogol denies it. Then he sort of admits it: “I, a poor peasant, have conquered science! Why can I not conquer love? You MUST be mine!”

Then he puts on this getup in order to convince the husband that he’s a decapitated criminal come to life.