Hand, The (1960)

Captured by the Japanese in Burma during World War II, British infantrymen Private Mike Brodie (Reed De Rouen) and Corporal George Adams (Bryan Coleman) refuse to talk and have their right hands cut off, but to save his own skin, their officer Captain Roberts (Derek Bond), turns traitor.

Years afterwards, Charlie Taplow (Harold Scott), a one-handed drunk found clutching £500, is murdered before Scotland Yard detectives Munyard (Ronald Leigh-Hunt) and Pollitt (Ray Cooney) can question him.

Then wealthy surgeon Simon Crawshaw (Garard Green) commits suicide, and later Mike Brodie, now an embittered alcoholic, gets knifed, but manages to tell his brother, Noel (Reginald Hearne), that Roberts stabbed him.

Simon’s cousin, Roger, is actually Roberts, and he tries to dispose of Noel and Adams. Finally, Roberts, who had been hounded by Mike, comes to a sticky end on a railway track, where a train severs his hand!

The picture tells a tall story but fails to maintain interest and never fully makes sense. Derek Bond is miscast as Roberts alias Roger Crawshaw, but Ronald Leigh Hunt impresses as Munyard. The rest just get by.

Captain Roberts/Roger Crawshaw
Derek Bond
Inspector Munyard
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Private Mike Brodie
Reed De Rouen
Sergeant David Pollitt
Ray Cooney
Noel Brodie
Reginald Hearne
Sergeant Foster
Tony Hilton
Corporal George Adams
Bryan Coleman
Charlie Taplow
Harold Scott
Japanese Commander
Walter Randall
Nurse Johns
Gwenda Ewen
Dr Metcalfe
Michael Moore
Doctor
Ronald Wilson
Simon Crawshaw
Garard Green
Nurse Geiber
Jean Dallas
Marshall
David Blake Kelly
Mrs Brodie
Madeleine Burgess
Mother
Frances Bennett
Little Girl
Susan Reid
Mrs Adams
Pat Hicks
Peter Adams
John Norman

Director
Henry Cass