Reply With QuoteMad Love with Peter Lorre?
I remember watching a horror film, in English, when I was a very young boy which terrified me.
It would have been of the ilk that Boris Kaloff or Lorne Cheyney would have starred in.
The part which I recall distinctly is a pair of white gloves, body and arm less - a little like 'hand' from the Munsters, playing a piano.
I vaguely remember that the gloves / hands belonged to a murdered pianist who was haunting his tormentor; but I may be relying too much on a dim memory.
I would appreciate any pointers in the right direction.
Now I shall go and have a cup of delicious Japanese Bancha green tea, from my equally movie mad friends, at The Tea and Coffee Emporium, while I wait for your response.
Just a mad thought I wonder if the tea will still be available in the future as nuclear fall out is said to be contaminating some of the food chain!
Mad Love with Peter Lorre?
It is The Beast with Five Fingers also with Peter Lorre.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMthktGgm0Q
Last edited by will.15; 20-03-11 at 05:48 PM.
Of course .... got my Lorre's all muddled.
Was there another film made in the 70's/80's where a severed hand plays a part, I've tried to find one but I couldn't quite put my finger on it !
The Hand starring Michael Caine.
You wouldn't want to put your finger on it.
thanks Will, that's the one.
There was also Dr Terrors House of Horrors where the late great Michael Goughs amputated hand got quite nasty with Christopher Lee, but I do have to point out that it was made in the 60's rather than the 70's/80's.Originally Posted by paul kersey
And Now the Screaming Starts (1973) also features a severed hand (the same one that was in Dr Terror's).
You would have thought that they might have advertised for an extra hand !!
Will.15 ......... by Jove you've got it.
Many thanks, that seems to be the film I've been for want of a better expression, 'been haunted by'!
Now besides thanking you once more for your very kind assistance and making my apology to the master for committing the ultimate sin of forgetting the unforgeable Mr Lorre, I will hunt for a site that allows me to view it on-line.
The clip on Youtube seems almost farcical, but for a 7 year old seeing it on TV, I assure you it was anything but.
I am rather surprised at it being a 1946 classic, I always imagined it as an earlier work.
I got a DVD copy from Movieola, which I thought was going to be an original.
However, it is goodand considering the price (�6.99 +�2.00 postage from USA) worth it.
Remarkable acheivemnet in movie making considering there was no CGI in those days.
Dated and with no coherence in costume dating, in parts a tad pathetic, in others excellent.
Many thanks for making my boyhood dream become a reality.
There was also Edmund T Greville's British remake of MAD LOVE, THE HANDS OF ORLAC (1960), but trust me, you wouldn't want to remember that one either, having seen it.
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