The Beast with Five Fingers

The Beast with Five Fingers

Infobox Film
name = The Beast with Five Fingers


caption = "The Beast with Five Fingers" movie poster
director = Robert Florey
producer = William Jacobs
writer = William Fryer Harvey (story)
Curt Siodmak
starring = Robert Alda
Andrea King
Peter Lorre
music = Max Steiner
cinematography = Wesley Anderson
editing = Frank Magee
distributor = Warner Bros.
released = December 25, 1946
runtime = 88 min.
country = USA
language = English
amg_id = 1:4468
imdb_id = 0038338

"The Beast with Five Fingers" (1946) is a horror film directed by Robert Florey and with a screenplay by Curt Siodmak, based on a short story by W. F. Harvey first published in the "New Decameron". The original music score was composed by Max Steiner. The film was marketed with the tagline "A sensation of screaming suspense!"

This would be Lorre's last film with Warner Brothers. (In his 1982 autobiography "My Last Sigh", Surrealist director Luis Buñuel wrote that while at Warner Brothers dubbing films into Spanish 1942-1946, he submitted a story about a murderous disembodied hand, then moved to Mexico and re-started his career as director.) The much-played piano piece is a transcription for left hand by Warner Bros. pianist Victor Aller of the chaconne from Johann Sebastian Bach's Violin Partita in D minor.

The film was remade in 1981 by director Oliver Stone as "The Hand".

Plot summary

Evil is running amok in an Italian village, mostly in the estate of a deceased pianist where murders begin to take place. What is this supposed evil? The pianist's hand.

Cast

*Robert Alda - Bruce Conrad
*Andrea King - Julie Holden
*Peter Lorre - Hilary Cummins
*Victor Francen - Francis Ingram
*J. Carrol Naish - Commissario Ovidio Castanio
*Charles Dingle - Raymond Arlington
*John Alvin - Donald Arlington

ee also

* "The Hand" (1981) directed by Oliver Stone

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