Bloody Hands

The story

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

A Arturo de CórdovaAdriano S Sadi Cabral C Carlos Cotrim J Jackson de Souza M Manoel Pera T Tônia Carrero H Heloísa Helena L Lizete Barros O Oswaldo Louzada J José Policena R Ramiro Magalhães C Claudiano Filho

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G Gilberto Martinho A Aurélio Teixeira A Antonia Marzullo L Lídia Mattos J João Zacarias A Allan Lima A Arnaldo Montel M Milton Marcos W Wilton Franco C Cirilo Dacosta P Paulo Montel A Armando Camargo L Lajar Mar E Edson Vilas Boas M Milton Leal V Vicente Costa