Everything about The Beast With Five Fingers totally explained
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.
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
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