The Beast with Five Fingers
Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where several murders have taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: October 1, 2013
- Originally Released: 1946
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Lorre | |
Performer: | Robert Alda, Andrea King, Victor Francen, J. Carrol Naish, Charles Dingle, John Alvin & Patricia Barry | |
Directed by | Robert Florey | |
Edited by | Frank Magee | |
Screenwriting by | Curt Siodmak | |
Composition by | Max Steiner | |
Art Direction by | Stanley Fleischer | |
Produced by | William Jacobs | |
Director of Photography: | Wesley Anderson | |
Executive Production by | Jack L. Warner |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
As it torments Lorre, the hand becomes a manifestation of the metaphorical notion of a hand tugging us toward our destiny or reaching from the past to punish us; an alternate, utterly appropriate title might be 'The Hand of Fate.'
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Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Rating: 4/5 --
Peter Lorre is so good.
ColeSmithey.com
The animated hand, creepy piano music, and Lorre's eye-popping performance are all memorable.
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Time Out
Rating: 7/10 --
Given the tenuous state of horror in 1946, it acquits itself beautifully.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
This is fairly spooky despite its silly story and modest budget
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4/5 --
Lorre literally steals the show with a masterfully bravura performance in a superior slice of psychological horror.
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Radio Times
Rating: B --
Wastes a captivating original premise and some fine performances with a stiff script and a cop-out ending.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Description by OLDIES.com:
Hilary Cummins (Peter Lorre), the devoted secretary to wheelchair-bound piano virtuoso Francis Ingram (Victor Francen), has a passion for the occult. Poring through every book on the supernatural he can find in Ingram's vast library, Hilary begins to imagine strange and terrifying things. But after Ingram's tragic death, the line between reality and unimaginable terror is blurred as the severed hand from Ingram's corpse begins killing everyone in the villa!
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 4,418
- UPC: 883316843062
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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