United States

Not all creatures need a body . . . The grisley shocker in this Peter Lorre chiller is, quite simply, a hand. It used to belong to a famous concert pianist. Now that he's dead, his hand takes on a bizarre life of it's own. It wriggles across the floor, it upsets the furniture, it can even play Bach, as it always used to. And it's driving Peter Lorre completely mad. He decides to stop it. He nails the hand to the floor... The only horror film made by Warner Brothers in the 1940's, the film stems from a story by William Fryer Harvey, directed by Robert Florey - the French friend of Chaplin and Valentino, who worked on the script of the original Frankenstein in 1931. His cast includes Robert Alda (Alan's father) and J. Carrol Naish (TV's Charlie Chan), Victor Francen plays the pianist and Peter Lorre is his secretary - the only person to see the hand, Apart, that is, from you.