Directed by: Robert Florey
Stars: Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre
Language: English + Commentary (2nd track) | Subtitles: English (embed)
Commentary by Author/Film Historian Dr. Steve Haberman and Filmmaker/Film Historian Constantine Nasr
Country: Usa | Imdb Info | Ar: 1.370 | Brrip
Description: Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where several murders have taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist’s severed hand.
Preview
2GB | 88:53mins | 1480×1080 | mkv
https://tezfiles.com/file/2bdf1a8324262/The.Beast.with.Five.Fingers.1946.mkv
====bluray extras====
The Foxy Duckling (1947)
203MB | 7:35mins | 1480×1080 | mkv | English
https://tezfiles.com/file/1bd7ac9fb651f/The.Foxy.Duckling.1947.mkv
The Gay Anties (1947)
210MB | 6:26mins | 1480×1080 | mkv | English
https://tezfiles.com/file/08e6a441dfba6/The.Gay.Anties.1947.mkv
In his autobiography “My Last Breath”, the great Surrealist movie director Luis Buñuel tells an interesting tale about this film. At the time he was living in Hollywood but struggling to be accepted by the mainstream movie industry. He never was, and didn’t manage to make any more films until he moved to Mexico.
His only Hollywood job was some work on the script of this film. He wrote a scene, and both director Robert Florey and star Peter Lorre loved it. Unfortunately the studio bosses hated it, and fired Buñuel immediately, refusing to pay him a cent for his useless material.
And then, months later, Buñuel saw the film in a cinema, and there was his scene exactly as he’d written it, though he received neither credit nor payment. The studio had found an excuse to fire him just to avoid spending a few bucks, knowing that a nobody like him would have no chance of successfully taking legal action. Warner Bros. were notorious for that kind of petty unpleasantness, especially Jack Warner, who was a truly awful person.
It’s the scene where Peter Lorre sees the hand crawling around the library. Note the Surrealist touches, like guitar strings breaking for no apparent reason, which occur nowhere else in the movie.
Thank you !!
Any chance of getting “La Nave de los Monstruos” from 1960 with Ana Bertha Lepe and Lorena Velasquez?
Thanks for all you do, this is the best site for the hard-to-find classics!
best print on ytube
youtube.com/watch?v=ZKRcJqKiELU
Svengoolie ran this a few times, it’s fun!
Thanks for the upgrade, RL. Absolute classic, this – as is any movie with Peter Lorre. Very much like your Addams Family Thing reference, Mr.G.
Sounds like horror version of the Addams Family hand (aka “the thing”)!
Love the inclusion of these animated shorts. the technicolor look is fantastic.