Genre: Horror, Suspense, Investigation, Revenge, Murder
Tagline: It walks like a spider... it stalks like a cobra!
Plot: There's some underhanded business going at the gloomy mansion of former piano virtuoso Francis Ingram (Victor Francen) in this mystery set in rural Italy in the early 1900s. Confined to a wheelchair and only able to use one hand to play, the bitter Ingram lives with his devoted nurse (Andrea King); an antiques dealer (Robert Conrad), and a craven secretary (Peter Lorre). When Ingram is killed in a mysterious accident, some dislikable British relatives (Charles Dingle and John David) come to claim the mansion, but find more than they bargained for when Ingram's disembodied hand starts crawling from the grave at night to play piano, and strangle horrified victims.Robert Florey (MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE) directed this odd combination of "old dark house" mystery and rural Italian period piece. The highlights are Lorre's priceless scenes of confrontation with the disembodied hand, and the starkly beautiful photography that captures every creepy shadow from the fireplace's flickering flames. Max Steiner did the toweringly horrific score. Curt Siodmak (THE WOLFMAN) wrote the screenplay based on a short story by William Fryer Harvey.
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| Directed by |
Robert Florey
The Cocoanuts, Tarzan and the Mermaids, Murders in the Rue Morgue |
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| Written by |
| Curt Siodmak
The Wolf Man, I Walked with a Zombie, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers |
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| Cast |
Robert Alda
Imitation of Life, The House of Exorcism, Cloak and Dagger | Andrea King
The Lemon Drop Kid, Hollywood Canteen, Band of Angels | | Victor Francen
Passage to Marseille, The Mask of Dimitrios, Night and Day | | Charles Dingle
The Little Foxes, Duel in the Sun, The Talk of the Town | | |
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| Music By |
Max Steiner
Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Arsenic and Old Lace |
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