Hands of a Stranger
They gave him the hands of a killer!
Genres
Overview
A concert pianist loses his hands in a car crash, but a surgeon gives him new ones. The experimental medical procedure goes awry when the new hands drive the pianist mad.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
85 min
Release Date
1962-04-22
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
25
Vote Average
4.8
Paul Lukather
Dr. Gil Harding
Joan Harvey
Dina Paris
James Noah
Vernon Paris (as James Stapleton)
Irish McCalla
Holly
Barry Gordon
Skeet
Ted Otis
Dr. Ross Compton
Laurence Haddon
Lt. Syms
Elaine Martone
Eileen Hunter
George Sawaya
Tony Wilder
Sally Kellerman
Sue
Michael Rye
George Britton
Michael Du Pont
Dr. Ken Fry
David Kramer
Carnival Barker
5.8
Corruption
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1968-07-19 | en
6.0
Extreme Measures
Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.
1996-09-27 | en
0.0
This Film is not in Reverse
A hand, a foot and the head fighting over sugar.
2025-07-09 | xx
6.8
Green for Danger
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1946-12-07 | en
4.0
Bloody Knuckles
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2014-07-27 | en
4.7
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.
1962-02-25 | en
7.6
Eyes Without a Face
Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.
1960-01-11 | fr
6.2
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
1974-05-02 | en
5.5
Lady Frankenstein
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1971-10-22 | it
7.5
The Fugitive
Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.
1993-08-06 | en
7.0
Mad Love
An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands which still have the urge to throw knives.
1935-07-12 | en
6.5
Black Jack: The Movie
Black Jack is a master surgeon who possesses impeccable skills, enabling him to perform operations that are impossible for even the finest surgeons. He now is faced with his most difficult task to date and must challenge the limits of medical science...before it's too late!
1996-11-29 | ja
3.7
Psychic Wars
When brilliant surgeon Ukyo Retsu removes a cancer from a mysterious old woman, he doesn't realize that the cancer is a 5000 year-old demon. Ukyo must then assume the role of protector of the Earth.
1991-02-21 | ja
6.1
Corridors of Blood
Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.
1958-12-01 | en
7.5
Do No Harm
3am. Hongjing, China. 1980s. A single-minded surgeon is forced to break her physician's oath when violent gangsters storm into a hospital to stop a crucial operation.
2017-01-20 | en
6.1
Who Killed Bambi?
Isabelle, a beautiful nursing student, is starting her internship at a prestigious hospital. She meets Dr. Philip there, feels atracted to him from the beggining and starts suffering from strange fainting; so he calls her Bambi: her legs don't support her. Patients mysteriously start to dissappear from their rooms; so Bambi and Dr. Philip start a cat vs. mouse paranoid game, in order to catch the probable killer.
2003-12-24 | fr
6.0
The Gate
Three young children accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that is literally taking over the Earth.
1987-04-21 | en
5.2
The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a deranged retired surgeon, who has a very disturbed vision.
2009-10-31 | en
6.9
Hangmen Also Die!
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
1943-04-15 | en
2.1
Manos: The Hands of Fate
A family gets lost on the road and stumbles upon a hidden, underground, devil-worshiping cult led by the fearsome Master and his servant Torgo.
1966-11-15 | en