The Stranger's Hand (1954)
January 20, 1954Release Date
The Stranger's Hand (1954)
January 20, 1954Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Richard O'Sullivan
Roger Court
Trevor Howard
Major Roger Court
Alida Valli
Roberta Gleukovitch
Richard Basehart
Joe Hamstringer
Eduardo Ciannelli
Dr. Vivaldi
Stephen Murray
British Consul in Venice
Mario Soldati
Director
Graham Greene
Writer
Arnoldo Foà
Commissioner
Guido Celano
Chief Constable
Giorgio Bassani
Writer
Guy Elmes
Writer
Helen Goss
Undetermined Role
Giorgio Costantini
Pescovitch
Angelo Cecchelin
Luza
Angelo Rizzoli
Producer
Nino Vechina
First Killer
Armando Papette
Second Killer
Giovanni Karuz
Third Killer
Joan Butterfield
Mrs. Harrington
Alessandro Paulon
Morgan
Remington Olmsted
Ramondo
Nino Rota
Music
Enzo Serafin
Cinematography
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 20, 1954
Original NameLa mano dello straniero
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 25m
Genres
Wiki.
The Stranger's Hand (Italian: La mano dello straniero) is a 1954 British-Italian thriller drama film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Trevor Howard, Alida Valli and Richard Basehart. An international co-production, it is based on the draft novel with the same name written by Graham Greene. The plot follows the son of a British MI5 agent kidnapped in Venice by agents of Yugoslavia as he searches for his father.
The first two chapters of The Stranger's Hand had been entered by Greene anonymously under a pseudonym to a competition in the New Statesman to write a book in the style of Graham Greene – a competition in which Greene was amused to win second prize. Soldati had seen the chapters and persuaded Greene to complete the novella to make the basis for a film. Greene expanded it to 30 pages of a "film story", on which Giorgio Bassani and Guy Elmes completed the screenplay.