The Beast with Five Fingers
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The Beast with Five Fingers is a short story by W. F. Harvey and a movie based on it. first published in the New Decamaron. This would be Lorre's last film with Warner Brothers. Surrealist Spanish director Luis Buñuel purportedly contributed to the sometimes astonishing special effects. 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.
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.
Cast
- Robert Alda - Bruce Conrad
- Andrea King - Julie Holden
- Peter Lorre - Hilary Cummins
- Victor Francen - Francis Ingram
- J. Carrol Naish - Commissario Ovidio Castanio
- Charles Dingle - Raymond Arlington
- John Alvin - Donald Arlington
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