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In this third film adaptation of the Maurice Renard novel – a French/UK co-production filmed in two separate versions by different cinematographers with alternate supporting casts – Mel Ferrer (BLOOD AND ROSES, EATEN ALIVE) stars as a famed concert pianist whose hands are destroyed in a plane crash. But when he receives transplants from a recently executed strangler, his murderous new mitts attract the attention of a sleazy illusionist turned blackmailer (a scene-stealing Christopher Lee). Felix Aylmer (THE MUMMY), Sir Donald Wolfit (BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE), Dany Carrel (MILL OF THE STONE WOMEN) and Donald Pleasence co-star in this “cracking good entertainment” (FrenchFilms.org) directed by Edmond T. Greville (BEAT GIRL), featuring the UK Cut scanned in 4K from the original camera negative by The British Film Institute and restored by Severin Films, the longer French Cut supplied by Rene Chateau Productions and 2+ hours of all-new Special Features.