The Hands of Orlac (Hands of a Strangler) (1960)

Mel Ferrer, Dany Carrel, Lucille Saint-Simon, Christopher Lee, Felix Aylmer ... see more  , Mireille Perrey , Antoine Balpêtré , Anita Bolster , Arnold Diamond , Charles Lamb , David Peel , Donald Pleasence , Peter Reynolds , Campbell Singer , Basil Sydney , Ann Way , Molly Weir , Donald Wolfit , Vicki Woolf , Katya Wyeth , Peter Hunt , Walter Randall , Lucile Saint-Simon

The oft-filmed Maurice Renard novel Hands of Orlac was given another cinematic go-round in this Franco-British production. Famed concert pianist Stephen Orlac (Mel Ferrer) survives a plane crash, but ... read more his hands are permanently destroyed. Helpful surgeon Volcheff (Donald Wolfit) grafts a pair of new hands on the hapless Orlac. Unfortunately, they're the hands of an executed murderer--useless for a pianist, but quite handy (no pun intended) for less delicate work. Before long, Orlac is convinced that he himself has become a killer thanks to his new extremeties. Two-bit magician Nero (Christopher Lee) decides to exploit Orlac's fears for his own financial gain, with horrifying results. Originally filmed in 1959, Hands of Orlac was finally released in the US in 1964 . ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi