The Hand
A Police Inspector follows the trail and circumstances of the murder of a one-handed man back to a prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1946.
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"It was very rare that the British film industry gave us such films, besides the pure horror genre in the Hammer Films or Tiggon productions fashion, most notorious horror films companies. Because this film is a crime thriller with a rather American style plot. It is short, maybe too short for this kind of scheme. It is tense, sharp, riveting, exciting, maybe the most interesting film from director Henry Cass, who gave us some horror flicks. It is not complex to understand or follow, no real deep mystery plot, complicated links to assimilate. It is useless to put many action scenes in such a st..."
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The Japanese officer demands to know prisoners' regiment. This seems rather pointless. Presumably he means the immediate unit to which the men belong and from the proximity of gunfire that the regiment is just down the road. British/Commonwealth troops in WW2 were not organised into regiments, they were formed into battalions. Each battalion having a parent regiment, the regiment consisting of between one and four battalions.
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A Police Inspector follows the trail and circumstances of the murder of a one-handed man back to a prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1946.