The hand of a dead astronaut comes crawling back from the grave to strangle the livingThe hand of a dead astronaut comes crawling back from the grave to strangle the livingThe hand of a dead astronaut comes crawling back from the grave to strangle the living
Alan Hale Jr.
- Sheriff Townsend
- (as Alan Hale)
Tristram Coffin
- Security Chief Meidel
- (as Tristam Coffin)
Stan Jones
- Funeral Director
- (as G. Stanley Jones)
Ashley Cowan
- Capt. Mel Lockhart
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBurt Reynolds screen-tested twice for the role as teen character Paul Lawrence, but reportedly performed so woodenly that he was not chosen.
- GoofsWhen Paul sits up and looks at the dead Mrs. Hotchkiss in the back of the ambulance and screams, Mrs. Hotchkiss begins to close her eyes after being dead for quite some time now. Her eyes blink too.
- Quotes
Capt. Mel Lockhart: [from the monitor] Something... makes my arm move... makes me do things! Kill! Kill!
- Alternate versionsSirry Steffen did a nude scene for foreign markets.
- ConnectionsEdited into FrightMare Theater: The Crawling Hand (2018)
- SoundtracksThe Bird's the Word
Sung by The Rivingtons
Featured review
What a Grip!
Delightful hokum from the early sixties and the directorial seat of Herbert Strock. A space flight to the moon brings back the dead body of a man who warns his space station to kill him...and the thing that has partially possessed his body. The man is literally blown to bits on his return flight home, but one lone appendage happens to make it intact to the beaches of California. That's right.....THIS is the Crawling Hand! Two teenagers, very well-versed in science and knowing about these manned flights to the moon, come across the hand. Rod Lauren as a teenaged scientist takes the hand home for scientific glory, but soon becomes a pawn in the hand's quest for murder and body possession. This film has many faults and you will laugh your hands off(okay it's a cheap pun) at the film's bad acting, cheap sets, and incredibly inept scientific logic. But make no mistake....this is a fun film to watch and has a lot of charm. The make-up of the people strangled by the hand is pretty chilling and Allison Hayes and Alan Hale(the Skipper) have some fun in their roles. One scene that really stands out is a hand's on strangle of a soda shop owner with a juke box playing menacingly in the backdrop. I'm sure some statement of misbegotten youth was being made.
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- BaronBl00d
- Jan 13, 2001
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Don't Cry Wolf
- Filming locations
- 2215 W 24th St, Jefferson Square, Los Angeles, California, USA(murder victim's house)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $100,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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