The Beast with Five Fingers
The Beast with Five Fingers ★★½ 1946
After a pianist mysteriously dies and leaves his fortune to his private nurse, the occupants of his villa are terrorized by a creature that turns out to be the pianist's hand which was severed by his personal secretary (Lorre). Lorre is also terrorized by hallucinations of the hand, and no matter what he does to stop it (nail it to a desk, throw it in the fire, etc.), nothing can keep the hand from car rying out its mission. A creepy thriller with inventive shots of the severed hand. 88m/B VHS . Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, J. Carrol Naish, Charles Dingle; D: Robert Florey; W: Curt Siodmak; M: Max Steiner.
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