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Director: Edmond T. Gréville Starring: Mel Ferrer, Christopher Lee, Dany Carrel, Lucile Saint-Simon, Felix Aylmer Synopsis After a successful concert, the pianist Stephen Orlac is involved in a plane crash whilst returning to his fiancée Louise.  On the way to the hospital, the ambulance must take a detour because no one can pass near the prison where the strangler Vasseur is due to be guillotined that same night.  Six months after an operation on his hands, Orlac is in despair because he can no longer play the piano.  Louise suggests that he should spend time with her at her house on the Riviera.   But, here, Orlac has a nervous breakdown.  Fleeing to Marseilles, he rents a room in a small hotel where he meets Regina, a minor music hall artist, and her partner, Neron.  These two are in fact crooks who know Orlac by reputation and are ready to blackmail him.  One day, Orlac telephones Louise to tell her that he has no control over his hands, which he knows to be the ones taken from the corpse of the strangler Vasseur.  Neron overhears the conversation and conceives a diabolical plan... Credits Director: Edmond T. Gréville Script: John Baines, Edmond T. Gréville, Maurice Renard (novel) Photo: Desmond Dickinson, Jacques Lemare Music: Claude Bolling Cast: Mel Ferrer (Stephen Orlac), Christopher Lee (Nero the magician), Dany Carrel (Régina), Lucile Saint-Simon (Louise Cochrane Orlac), Felix Aylmer (Dr. Francis Cochrane), Peter Reynolds (Mr. Felix), Basil Sydney (Maurice Seidelman), Campbell Singer (Inspector Henderson), Donald Wolfit (Professor Volchett), Donald Pleasence (Graham Coates), Peter Bennett (1st Member), George Merritt (2nd Member), Arnold Diamond (Dresser), Janina Faye (Child), Gertan Klauber (Fairground attendant), Mireille Perrey (Madame Aliberti) Country: France / UK Language: English / French Runtime: 104 min; B&W Aka: Hands of a Strangler; Hands of the Strangler; Les Mains d’Orlac More British Crime/Thriller More British Horror

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