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
Cinematography Wesley Anderson
Editing by Frank Magee
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) December 25, 1946
Running time 88 min.
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English
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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 composer Johannes Brahms, with some further editing by Max Steiner, of the chaconne from Johann Sebastian Bach's second partita for solo violin.

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

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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.

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[edit] See also

  • The Hand (1981) directed by Oliver Stone

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