''Sinister Hands'' is a 1932 American
pre-Code
Pre-Code Hollywood was the brief era in the American film industry between the widespread adoption of sound in film in 1929LaSalle (2002), p. 1. and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines, popularly known ...
film directed by
Armand Schaefer.
Plot summary
A millionaire is murdered at a séance at a fortune-teller's home. Detective Capt Herbert Devlin, played by
Jack Mulhall, and Detective Watkins investigate the crime only to discover all attendees have a motive.
Cast
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Jack Mulhall as Detective Capt. Herbert Devlin
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Phyllis Barrington
Phyllis Barrington (February 7, 1904 – June 20, 1989) was an American actress. Born Clara Parry and raised in Salt Lake City, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Parry. She was a graduate of Salt Lake's East High School. She attende ...
as Ruth Frazer
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Crauford Kent as Judge David McLeod
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Mischa Auer
Mischa Auer (born Mikhail Semyonovich Unkovsky (Михаил Семёнович Унковский; 17 November 1905 – 5 March 1967) was a Russian-born American actor who moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s. He first appeared in film in 192 ...
as Swami Yomurda
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Louis Natheaux as Nick Genna
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Gertrude Messinger as Betty Lang
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Lloyd Ingraham as John Frazer
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James P. Burtis as Detective Watkins
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Phillips Smalley
Wendell Phillips Smalley (August 7, 1865 – May 2, 1939) was an American silent film director and actor.
Biography
Born in Brooklyn, New York, he was the grandson of Wendell Phillips; he was the son of George Washburn Smalley, a war corres ...
as Richard Lang
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Helen Foster as Vivian Rogers
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Lillian West
Lillian West (March 15, 1886 – April 23, 1970) was an American film actress. She appeared in more than 100 films between 1916 and 1958. She was born in New York, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.
Partial filmography
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as Mrs. Lang
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Fletcher Norton as Monroe, the Butler
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Bess Flowers as Mary Browne
References
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1932 films
American mystery films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Armand Schaefer
1932 mystery films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
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