Who better to star in a sinister story like "The Beast with Five Fingers" than bug-eyed, raspy-voiced Peter Lorre? The movie depicts an Italian town where a string of murders is attributed to a severed hand. Yeah, kinda silly, but it's still a very enjoyable movie. Oliver Stone remade it as "The Hand", starring Michael Caine as a cartoonist whose hand gets chopped off but doesn't stay dead (this was early in Stone's career, so the movie has nothing political).
So, this one is just some good old-fashioned Gothic horror, including a trick at the end. A fine achievement for Lorre, along with Robert Alda, Andrea King, Victor Francen and J. Carroll Naish.
So, this one is just some good old-fashioned Gothic horror, including a trick at the end. A fine achievement for Lorre, along with Robert Alda, Andrea King, Victor Francen and J. Carroll Naish.