Directed by:
Edmond T. GrévilleScreenplay:
John BainesCinematography:
Desmond DickinsonComposer:
Claude BollingCast:
Mel Ferrer, Dany Carrel, Christopher Lee, Lucile Saint-Simon, Donald Wolfit, Mireille Perrey, Felix Aylmer, Basil Sydney, Donald Pleasence, Peter R. Hunt (more)Plots(1)
Rich and famous concert pianist Stephen Orlac (Mel Ferrer) flies to France to marry beautiful Louise Cochrane (Lucile Saint-Simon). In heavy fog, the small aircraft crashes. Next day newspapers run two headlines next to each other: the ruin of his hands, as well as the execution of the strangler Louis Vasseur. During recovery of his surgery, in Orlac's mind his hands aren't his own any longer, they are Vasseur's. A magician and conman, Nero (Christopher Lee), with his sexy Vietnamese assistant (Dany Carrel), try to blackmail Orlac and to that purpose devise plots that further push the pianist off his mind. (Mr. Fat-W Video)
(more)Cast
Mel Ferrer
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
The Longest Day (1962)
Dany Carrel
Best movies:
A Trap for Cinderella (1965)
The Gates of Paris (1957)
Lovers of Paris (1957)
Christopher Lee
UK
Best movies:
Lucile Saint-Simon
France
Best movies:
The Hands of Orlac (1960)
The Good Time Girls (1960)
Horror Castle (1963)
Donald Wolfit
UK
Best movies:
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Becket (1964)
Room at the Top (1959)
Mireille Perrey
France
Best movies:
The Hands of Orlac (1960)
The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)
Knock (1951)
Felix Aylmer
UK
Best movies:
Hamlet (1948)
Becket (1964)
The Citadel (1938)
Basil Sydney
UK
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Hamlet (1948)
The Devil's Disciple (1959)
Donald Pleasence
UK
Best movies:
The Great Escape (1963)
Watch Out, We're Mad (1974)
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (TV movie)
Peter R. Hunt
UK
Best movies:
The Hands of Orlac (1960)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Antoine Balpêtré
France
Best movies:
The President (1961)
Le Corbeau (1943)
The Red and the Black (1954)
Jean Combal
Best movies:
The Hands of Orlac (1960)
The Monte Carlo Story (1956)
Classe tous risques (1960)
Anita Sharp-Bolster
Ireland
Best movies:
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Pierre Ferrari
Best movies:
The Hands of Orlac (1960)
Gertan Klauber
UK
Best movies:
Top Secret (1984)
The Hands of Orlac (1960)
Octopussy (1983)
Molly Weir
UK
Best movies:
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
Scrooge (1970)
The Hands of Orlac (1960)
Victor Harrington
Malta
Best movies:
Juba Kennerley
UK
Best movies:
The Omen (1976)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The V.I.P.s (1963)
Arnold Diamond
UK
Best movies:
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Masters of Venus (1962)
Ring-a-Ding Rhythm (1962)
Aileen Lewis
UK
Best movies:
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
From Russia with Love (1963)