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A mysterious hand promises everything. Talent. Wealth. A second chance at life. But as The Devil’s Hand (1943) on Blu-ray slowly reveals, some bargains come with a price that cannot be escaped. Directed by French cinema pioneer Maurice Tourneur (Cécile is Dead) and starring Pierre Fresnay, this eerie tale unfolds like a dark legend passed from one […]
An unsung master of French cinema meets an undisputed master of detective fiction in Cécile is Dead, as Maurice Tourneur (The Devil’s Hand) brings Georges Simenon’s crime novel to the screen. Simenon’s beloved sleuth Inspector Maigret appeared in 75 novels and 28 short stories written over five decades, along with innumerable radio, film and television […]
Guests staying at an isolated mountain inn, cut off from the outside world by an avalanche, are astounded by the sudden arrival of Roland Brissot (Fresnay), a mysterious man with a prosthetic hand. He soon begins to regale the assembled patrons with his extraordinary story: once a struggling artist, his luck changed on the day […]
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