The Beast with Five Fingers

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The Beast with Five Fingers
The Beast with Five Fingers movie poster
Directed by	Robert Florey
Produced by	William Jacobs
Written by	William Fryer Harvey (story) Curt Siodmak
Starring	Robert Alda Andrea King Peter Lorre
Music by	Max Steiner
Distributed by	Warner Brothers
Release date(s)	December 25, 1946 United States
Running time	88 min
Language	English
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The Beast with Five Fingers is a 1946 movie, 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. This would be Lorre's last film with Warner Brothers. Surrealist Spanish director Luis Buñuel supposedly contributed to the sometimes astonishing special effects, just before he moved to Mexico and re-started his career as director. The much-played piano piece is a transcription (for left hand) by composer Johannes Brahms, with some further editing by Max Steiner, of the chaconne from Johann Sebastian Bach's second partita for solo violin.

It was filmed in 1946. The motion picture was directed by Robert Florey and was one of the early horror films to get favorable responses from critics and the public.

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

1 Film Plot overview
2 Cast
3 See also
4 External Links

[edit] Film Plot overview

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.