The Hands of Orlac Movie Review 1960

Third remake of Maurice Renard's classic tale. When a concert pianist's hands are mutilated in an accident, he receives a graft of a murderer's hands. Obsession sweeps the musician, as he believes his new hands are incapable of music, only violence. Bland adaptation of the original story.

Distribution

Sinister Cinema, PO Box 4369, Medford, OR 97501-0168, Phone: (541)773-6860, Fax: (541)779-8650, Email: scinema@qwest.net, URL: http://www.sinistercinema.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 95 minutes.
Originally from British, French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Renegade Body Parts

Screenplay

Edmond T. Greville, John Baines, Donald Taylor

Cast

Mel Ferrer, Christopher Lee, Felix Aylmer, Basil Sydney, Donald Wolfit, Donald Pleasence, Dany Carrel, Lucile Saint-Simon, Peter Reynolds, Campbell Singer, David Peel

Cinematography

Desmond Dickinson

Director

Edmond T. Greville

Music

Claude Bolling

Producer

Pendennis Films, Continental Distributing Company