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The Beast with Five Fingers is a short story by W. F. Harvey and a movie based on it. first published in the New Decamaron. 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.

It was filmed in 1946. The motion picture was directed by Robert Florey and was one of the early horror films to get favorable responses from critics and the public.

Film 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

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