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Bloody Hands (1955)
Directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen
Drama, Crime, Thriller · 1h 22m
Maos Sangrentas translates to Bloody Hands in English, and that's just what this gruesome Brazilian melodrama delivers. The story begins when a gang of dangerous convicts escape from a penal colony. With the police in hot pursuit, the escapees cut a gory swath through the countryside. As his comrades are killed off one by one, the leader of the group descends into gibbering madness. In contrast to this, a subplot develops involving the least dangerous of the escapees, who murdered his wife in a peak of self-righteous rage and is now seriously in doubt about the wisdom of his deed. Principal scenes reworked in 1962 to make the film The Violent and the Damned (q.v.).
Cast
Arturo de Córdova
Sadi Cabral
Tônia Carrero
Heloísa Helena
Oswaldo Louzada
Crew
- Director
- Carlos Hugo Christensen
- Screenplay
- Pedro Juan Vignale, Carlos Hugo Christensen
- Director of Photography
- Mario Pagés
- Editor
- José Cañizares
- Producer
- Carlos Hugo Christensen, Gregorio Walerstein, Roberto Acacio
Details
- Original title
- Mãos Sangrentas
- Release date
- 1955-08-05
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime, Thriller
- Original language
- PT
- Spoken languages
- Spanish, Portuguese
- Countries
- Argentina, Brazil
- Production
- Maristela Filmes, Artistas Associados Filmes