The Hand
Cast & Crew
Henry Cass
Derek Bond
Reed De Rouen
Bryan Coleman
Walter Randall
Tony Hilton
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Synopsis
In World War II, a British officer, Captain Roberts, and two of his men, Adams and Brodie, are captured in Burma by the Japanese. Both Adams and Brodie endure the severance of their right hands rather than divulge secret information to the enemy, but the captain gives in, thereby saving his own hand. In contemporary London, the amputation of an alcoholic's hand and his subsequent abduction and murder are investigated by police detectives Pollitt and Munyard. Tracing the murder victim to the Allin House Nursing Home, the detectives discover that the amputation was performed by Dr. Simon Crawshaw. The surgeon, however, is murdered during the inquiry, as is Brodie, who had been hounding Roberts for his wartime capitulation. Aided by Adams and Brodie's brother Noel, the investigators pursue the murderer. Fleeing across a railroad trestle, Roberts stumbles, and a speeding train severs his hand.
Director
Henry Cass
Cast
Derek Bond
Reed De Rouen
Bryan Coleman
Walter Randall
Tony Hilton
Harold Scott
Ray Cooney
Gwenda Ewen
Michael Moore
Ronald Leigh-hunt
Ronald Wilson
Garard Green
Jean Dallas
David Blake Kelly
Reginald Hearne
Madeleine Burgess
Frances Bennett
Susan Reid
Pat Hicks
John Norman
Crew
Jane Buck
Wilfred Burns
Michael Burrage
Ray Cooney
Gus Drisse
John Earl
Jimmy Evans
Brenda Gardner
James Harvey
Robert Hill
Tony Hilton
Claude Hitchcock
Bill Luckwell
Bill Luckwell
Michael Luckwell
Clive Midwinter
James Shingfield
D. E. A. Winn
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Copyright length: 64 min. Released in Great Britain in November 1960; running time: 61 min.
