The Beast with Five Fingers
The Beast with Five Fingers is a 1946 motion picture directed by Robert Florey and was one of the early horror films to get a good response by critics and the public.
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
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 Max Steiner of the chaconne from Johann Sebastian Bach's second partita for solo violin.