Death in the Hand (Original title)
Date: 1948 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: A. Barr-Smith
Synopsis: Cosmo Vaughan, believer in palmistry, is travelling in a train with four other passengers all of whose palms have revealed that their sudden and violent death is imminent. In an attempt to prevent the deaths he pulls the communication cord...
Genre: Thriller
Releases
Date: 1948Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 44 mins Length: 3910 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: September 2015Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 44 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Date: 1948 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: A. Barr-Smith
Synopsis: Cosmo Vaughan, believer in palmistry, is travelling in a train with four other passengers all of whose palms have revealed that their sudden and violent death is imminent. In an attempt to prevent the deaths he pulls the communication cord...
Genre: Thriller
Releases
Date: 1948Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 44 mins Length: 3910 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: September 2015Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 44 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Credits
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Production Company: Five Star Films, Produced by: A. Barr-Smith, Ass-Director: Bob Jones, Screen Story by: Douglas Cleverdon, A variation on a theme by: Sir Max Beerbohm, Camera (Interiors): Jo Jago, Camera (Exteriors): George Noble, Editor: Bunch Dixon-Spain, Ass-Editor: Irene Langer, Settings: Denis Wreford, Music Composed and Arranged by: Albert Ferber, Sound Supervisor: Eric Humphriss, Made and Recorded at: Viking Film Studios
Cast
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Esme Percy (Cosmo Vaughan), Ernest Jay (Macrae), Cecile Chevreau, Carlton Hobbs (chairman), John Le Mesurier (Jack Mottram), Shelagh Fraser (Penelope Macrae), Hubert Leslie (waiter), Nuna Davey (countrywoman), Norman Shelley (businessman), Wilfred Caithness (Mr Rowlandson), Thea Wells (Mrs Rowlandson)