The Beast with Five Fingers
The Beast with Five Fingers 1946 is a mysteryhorror film directed by Robert Florey and with a screenplay by Curt Siodmak, based on a short story written by W. F. Harvey and first published in The New Decameron 1919. The original music score was composed by Max Steiner. The film was marketed with the tagline A sensation of screaming suspense
Francis Ingram Victor Francen is a noted pianist who lives in a large manor house near a small, isolated Italian village. Ingram suffered a stroke which left his right side immobile, and he has to use a wheelchair to get around. He has retreated to the manor house for the past few yearsseen by only a few close friends. These include his nurse, Julie Holden Andrea King a musicologist and amateur astrologist, Hillary Cummins Peter Lorre a friend, Bruce Conrad Robert Alda and his sisters son, Donald Arlington John Alvin. Ingram has fallen in love with Julie Holden, and has changed his will so that she receives the vast bulk of his enormous estate when he dies. But Julie is secretly in love with Conrad. The change in the will disinherits Arlington and Cummins, and Cummins tries to expose Holdens affair. Ingram, outraged at the slander on his beloveds good name, tries to choke Cummins to death. Only Julies arrival after meeting Conrad in the garden saves him.Later that night, Ingram begins to suffer hallucinations from poison put in his food and drink. He climbs into his wheelchair, makes it to the top of the stairs, and calls out for Julie who never comes to his aid. Ingram falls down the stairs, breaking his neck. The audience does not see if Ingram was pushed or he fell. Commissario Ovidio Castanio J. Carrol Naish of the local police investigates the death, but finds little sign of murder. ........
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