The Crawling Hand

After an astronaut space capsule is detonated in orbit, with the astronaut begging to be killed, a teenager couple finds a severed arm on a remote beach. The boy takes the arm home, where it becomes animate and the alien force which animates it soon possesses his mind as well.

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The Crawling Hand is a 1963 American science fiction horror film directed by Herbert L. Strock, and starring Peter Breck, Kent Taylor, Rod Lauren, Alan Hale and Allison Hayes. It was later featured on the television shows Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) and The Canned Film Festival.

== Plot ==
An astronaut, out of oxygen and coming in for a crash landing, somehow manages to re-establish radio contact and tell ground control to activate the ship self-destruction mechanism. After wondering why the astronaut couldn't do it himself, ground control pushes the red button, causing the ship to explode at 70,000 feet (21,000 m); scientists Steve Curan (Peter Breck), Max Weitzberg (Kent Taylor), and their assistant Donna (Allison Hayes) later discover that the late astronaut was infected by some sort of alien lifeform.
Meanwhile, Paul Lawrence (Rod Lauren), a science student and his girlfriend Marta Farnstrom (Sirry Steffen) find a severed human arm on a beach in California. Recognizing the sleeve of the astronaut's uniform, Paul takes it home for further study, but the hand murders the landlady and possess Paul himself, causing him to attack other people around town including Marta and the soda shop owner.
Upon learning that the late astronaut's fingerprints were found on Paul's landlady corpse, Curan and Weitzberg arrive in California to question Paul, but a skeptical Sheriff Townsend (Alan Hale Jr.) believes that Paul is the culprit.
In a lucid moment, Paul captures the hand and takes it to the city dump, where he stabs it with a broken bottle and it is eaten by cats, freeing Paul from the alien influence. Paul and Marta live happily ever after, while Curan and Weitzberg return to Washington.
Meanwhile the federales charged with transporting the offended appendage open the box used to confine the apprehended hand. The film ends with a quick zoom to the inside of an empty box as the words "the end" appear on black.

== Cast ==
Peter Breck as Steve Curan
Kent Taylor as Dr. Max Weitzberg
Rod Lauren as Paul Lawrence
Alan Hale as Sheriff Townsend
Allison Hayes as Donna
Sirry Steffen as Marta Farnstrom
Arline Judge as Mrs. Hotchkiss
Richard Arlen as Lee Barrenger
Tristam Coffin as Security Chief Meidel
Ross Elliott as Deputy Earl Harrison
G. Stanley Jones as Funeral Director
Jock Putnam as Ambulance Attendant
Andy Andrews as Ambulance Attendant
Syd Saylor as Soda Shop Owner
Ed Wermer as Prof. Farnstrom
Beverly Lunsford as Patsy Townsend
Les Hoyle
Note: character names are not indicated in on-screen credits.

== Release and reception ==
The Crawling Hand was first released in 1963 by Donald J. Hansen Enterprises with American International Pictures distributing the film in the summer of 1964. Afterwards, it was distributed for broadcast syndication by Medallion TV as part of their "Creeping Terrors" package, which included other low-budget films such as Jungle Hell, Monster from the Ocean Floor, and Robot Monster.
Welch D. Everman described The Crawling Hand as "a film by grown-ups telling kids to grow up themselves" disguised as a teen science fiction. Rob Craig praised the editing, photography and music, while criticizing the script; Craig also stated that Michael J. Weldon, founder of the Psychotronic Video magazine enjoyed the film's use of The Rivingtons single "The Bird's the Word".

== Home media ==

The Crawling Hand was distributed on VHS by Video Gems and Rhino Home Video. It was also featured in Episode 6 of Season 1 of the TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000. This episode was released on VHS by Rhino Home Video in October 1999 and on DVD in June 2002, including the uncut film as a bonus feature.

== In other media ==
Rick Moody's novel The Four Fingers of Death, released in July 2010 by Little, Brown and Company, is a metafictional novelization of an imagined 2025 remake of The Crawling Hand (which means that Moody's fictional 'novelization' is set in a future very different from that of the 1963 film).

== References ==

== External links ==
The Crawling Hand at IMDb

=== Mystery Science Theater 3000 ===
"Mystery Science Theater 3000" The Crawling Hand (TV episode 1989) at IMDb
Episode guide: 106- The Crawling Hand

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