Unseen Hands

{{short description|1924 film}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Unseen Hands

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| director = Jacques Jaccard

| producer = Walker Coleman Graves Jr.

| writer = Walker Coleman Graves Jr.

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| starring = Wallace Beery
Joseph J. Dowling
Fontaine La Rue

| music =

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| cinematography = Alfred Gosden
John J. Pasztor

| studio = Encore Pictures

| distributor = Associated Exhibitors

| released = {{Film date|1924|05|25}}

| runtime = 65 min

| country = United States

| language = Silent
English intertitles

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Unseen Hands is a 1924 American silent horror film directed by Jacques Jaccard and starring Wallace Beery, Joseph J. Dowling and Fontaine La Rue.Soister p.48 This was apparently the only horror film Jaccard directed, although he made over 80 (mostly action and Western) films from 1914 to 1936. It was also producer Walker Coleman Graves Jr.'s only screenwriting credit.Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 281. {{ISBN|978-1936168-68-2}}.

Plot

Jean Scholast (Beery) makes a favorable impression on a wealthy businessman's wife (La Rue), and she gets her husband George Le Quintrec to hire him. Scholast works his way into the millionaire's life, stealing his wife and his fortune, and eventually murdering the old man. He later begins to experience hallucinations involving the ghost of the murdered man, and in the end, he is frightened to death by the apparition out in the desert.{{Citation |title=Unseen Hands |url=https://mubi.com/films/unseen-hands |access-date=2023-05-02 |language=en}}

Cast

References

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Bibliography

  • Soister, John T. American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929. McFarland, 2014.