The Hand (1981)
Country: US
Technical: col 104m
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Viveca Lindfors
Synopsis:
A comic-strip artist literally loses his hand in an accident, but it comes back to work mischief. Or is it all in his mind?
Review:
Dated and unconvincing psychological thriller, which wants to have its cake and eat it as regards the veracity or otherwise of the Caine character's experiences. In this the makers would no doubt plead poetic justice: early on, in the best bit of dialogue, the hero condemns psychologists, and at the end his hand returns to execute sentence. But by then we have all grown tired of equivocation.
Country: US
Technical: col 104m
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Viveca Lindfors
Synopsis:
A comic-strip artist literally loses his hand in an accident, but it comes back to work mischief. Or is it all in his mind?
Review:
Dated and unconvincing psychological thriller, which wants to have its cake and eat it as regards the veracity or otherwise of the Caine character's experiences. In this the makers would no doubt plead poetic justice: early on, in the best bit of dialogue, the hero condemns psychologists, and at the end his hand returns to execute sentence. But by then we have all grown tired of equivocation.
Country: US
Technical: col 104m
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Viveca Lindfors
Synopsis:
A comic-strip artist literally loses his hand in an accident, but it comes back to work mischief. Or is it all in his mind?
Review:
Dated and unconvincing psychological thriller, which wants to have its cake and eat it as regards the veracity or otherwise of the Caine character's experiences. In this the makers would no doubt plead poetic justice: early on, in the best bit of dialogue, the hero condemns psychologists, and at the end his hand returns to execute sentence. But by then we have all grown tired of equivocation.