The Beast With Five Fingers (1946 Future Cult Classic)

The thirteenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features our cult classic pick, horror movie The Beast With Five Fingers. Directed by Robert Florey and starring Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen and J. Carrol Naish, The Beast With Five Fingers is based on the short story by William Fryer Harvey.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1946/12/26/archives/the-screen-in-review-stairway-to-heaven-a-british-production-at.html), Variety (https://variety.com/1945/film/reviews/the-beast-with-five-fingers-1117788929/), and William R. Weaver in the Motion Picture Herald.

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