The Hands Of Orlac

The sound remake of the Wiene's 1925 classic. Concert pianist Paul Orlac (Mel Ferrer) survives a plane crash, and while in hospital reads that the night of his accident Vasseur The Strangler was executed. As in the original, hallucination and reality war for control of Orlac's mind as he becomes convinced that his hands are that of Vasseur and he tries to strangle his fiancée. Christopher Lee plays the criminal who tries to blackmail him.