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The Avenging Hand (1937)

The Avenging Hand poster
Directed by
Victor Hanbury
Genre
crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 04m
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man checks into a hotel and becomes entangled in a criminal plot. The story follows his encounter with dangerous figures and a woman caught in the middle.

old-fashionedsuspensefulstraightforwardplot-driventensemodestperiod crimegritty

What happens

The Avenging Hand (also known as Paradise Hotel) is a 1936 British crime film directed by Victor Hanbury and Frank Richardson and starring Noah Beery, Louis Borel, and Kathleen Kelly. It was written by Reginald Long and Ákos Tolnay. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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