Hands Of A Stranger 1962 ★★½ (CC) Crime/Thriller

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Hands of a Stranger is a 1962 American horror film directed by Newt Arnold and is unofficially the fourth film adaptation of The Hands of Orlac.   Plot: When the hands of pianist Vernon Paris are destroyed in a taxicab accident, he receives a double hand transplant from a recent murder victim. Although lead surgeon Dr. Harding declares the operation a success, Vernon is visibly distressed and seems unable to accept his new hands. Meanwhile, the doctor is questioned by Lieutenant Syms of the police department about the recent murder victim and the apparent secrecy surrounding his operating room.  Feeling sullen and still unable to deal with having someone else's hands, Vernon seeks comfort from his girlfriend, Eileen, but she is unsympathetic. As he reaches out to her, she becomes repelled by his scarred hands, knocking over a candle and setting her dress on fire. As she burns to death.  Afterwards, Vernon starts to become even more unstable and goes on a violent rampage.  Credits  Paul Lukather as Dr. Gil Harding  Joan Harvey as Dina Paris  James Stapleton as Vernon Paris  Ted Otis as Dr. Ross Compton  Michael Rye as George Britton  Laurence Haddon as Lieutenant Syms  Elaine Martone as Eileen Hunter  George Sawaya as Tony Wilder, The Cab Driver  Michael Du Pont as Dr. Ken Fry  Sally Kellerman as Sue  David Kramer as Carnival Barker  Irish McCalla as Holly  Barry Gordon as "Skeet" Wilder   Directed by Newt Arnold (as Newton Arnold)  Screenplay by Newt Arnold  Based on idea from Les Mains d'Orlac 1920 novel by Maurice Renard  Produced by Newt Arnold, Michael Du Pont  Cinematography Henry Cronjager Jr.  Edited by Bert Honey  Music by Richard LaSalle

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00:23:18But the great deal of luck will have made it possible for him to continue.

00:23:23You must have faith.

00:23:25Is it faith, Doctor?

00:23:27Or just ego as far as your particular talents is concerned?

00:23:31Tonight, four people did everything in their power to help your brother.

00:23:35I appreciate your feeling of personal tragedy,

00:23:37but I think you've wallowed in it long enough at my expense.

00:23:40Listen, Doctor, I realize you've been through a great deal tonight,

00:23:43but I don't think you...

00:23:44Well, I do think.

00:23:45From now on, the only thing that's important is the absolute cooperation of everyone involved in this man's life.

00:23:50Cooperation that'll create the proper recovery state of mind for him.

00:23:53Your attitude is a very crude one, Doctor.

00:23:56Maybe we ought to wait until...

00:23:58No, George.

00:23:59This man who's taken such sudden control of Vernon's life,

00:24:02I want to know what he expects to do.

00:24:05And I want to know whose hands he put on my brother's arms.

00:24:10Can you answer that?

00:24:12No, I can't.

00:24:13There's no precedent for what we've done.

00:24:15No published catalogue of spare parts to choose from at the local deep freeze.

00:24:18And you know nothing about the other man at all?

00:24:20Coincidence placed him on that table two hours before your brother's accident.

00:24:24He had powerful hands, that's all we have to know.

00:24:26That's all?

00:24:27If you're concerned with the possibility that he might have been some kind of madman,

00:24:31let me assure you that psychotic tendencies don't transfer themselves mystically to the physical extremities after death.

00:24:37You know that for a fact?

00:24:38No. No, I don't.

00:24:40I don't even know about Mother Goose or the wee people in the Glen.

00:24:43You're right.

00:24:44I guess I was cracking under it.

00:24:57A personal loss for us.

00:24:59A terrible responsibility for you.

00:25:02Weir will be back in the morning.

00:25:05The man has been fingerprinted.

00:25:07A complete check will be run, I assure you.

00:25:09When can we see him?

00:25:11Not for a week.

00:25:12He's under heavy sedation and additional radiation treatments.

00:25:15It's a critical period for his body's acceptance of the hands.

00:25:19Can't we even see him?

00:25:22Trust me, if you can.

00:25:26And when you do see him, it's vital that he believes he's only had simple emergency surgery.

00:25:32I've got to have at least six weeks before the final bandages come off.

00:25:36How long until we really know?

00:25:38It won't be long before his body gives us the answer.

00:25:41What we do as far as his mind is concerned,

00:25:45well, he'll need all of us for that.

00:25:52You know, Doctor, I'm one of those people who believes that our department renders a definite service

00:26:17to the safety and welfare of the community, just as you do.

00:26:20Now, I'm sure you observe certain regulations that make your work more orderly, more effective, am I at all, correct?

00:26:28Generally.

00:26:29Well, now so do we.

00:26:31For instance, when we have a homicide to contend with and we receive a body at the morgue,

00:26:36we feel it's reasonable to expect that we'll receive all of it.

00:26:39Mm-hmm.

00:26:41Don't ask me why, but I hold a feeling of kinship and respect for a man like you.

00:26:47On the other hand, I suspect you of some premeditated diddling on the hillside.

00:26:52Mind you, I've said nothing about this at the department, because I'm sure you have a totally worthy explanation.

00:26:58So, uh, exactly what have you done with those hands?

00:27:09It's nice to know you're sympathetic to my needs, but you know this isn't enough.

00:27:12What if I told you it had to be enough? For now.

00:27:15Doctor, when I was in college, one of my best friends was a medical student.

00:27:22So, uh, one night he stole into the laboratory and removed part of a cadaver,

00:27:27which he then utilized to produce a therapeutic effect on a timorous young lady at a beer party.

00:27:33Surely you've progressed beyond this.

00:27:36Inspector, let's pretend it's the past.

00:27:39Say, two months prior to the time this technique of identification was established.

00:27:44Suppose you came to me and you said that you were on the verge of a discovery

00:27:48that would greatly advance your profession and mankind as a result.

00:27:55Yet, for definite reasons, you needed those last two months in order to prove it.

00:27:59Would you expect me to block you or to interfere?

00:28:03Hmm.

00:28:06Very good analogy. I'm sorry you thought of it.

00:28:08Well?

00:28:10It's fortunate for you that I seem to sense a certain quality of honesty and greatness.

00:28:15Otherwise, I'd pull you in right now.

00:28:17Will you go along with me for that long?

00:28:19With the promise you'll be given the complete story the second it's possible.

00:28:23You had enough on this chart for a full preliminary check.

00:28:27Well, you're complicating things for me at the department.

00:28:31I suppose I can create an acceptable story.

00:28:36I suppose I'm as idealistic as you in many ways.

00:28:42I'm sure my wife and children would support me in that up to a point.

00:28:46Well, for everyone's sake, let's hope we don't pass that point.

00:28:52This will be his first moment of true consciousness.

00:29:03Please let me handle explanations.

00:29:06Guard your reactions against any indication of seriousness.

00:29:10Mr. Paris, do you have visitors?

00:29:33Mr. Paris?

00:29:40Mr. Reb染.

00:29:43Mr. My hands?

00:29:45Mr. You are going to be perfectly all right.

00:29:48Mr. What's happened to my hands?

00:29:50Mr. It was a traffic accident.

00:29:52Mr. Some of your fingers were broken.

00:29:57Mr. You're going to be all right.

00:29:59Mr. In the cab?

00:30:01Mr. The full driver

00:30:02he was asleep.

00:30:03Mr. It was his pain.

00:30:06The car.

00:30:07Mr. That fool driver.

00:30:09Why are my hands like this?

00:30:11We knew who you were.

00:30:13But your hands meant to you.

00:30:15We've immobilized them so the fingers will mend perfectly.

00:30:18I have to be in New York.

00:30:20Concert.

00:30:22Recordings.

00:30:23I've postponed them until you're well again.

00:30:25You will play again, Vernon.

00:30:27You will.

00:30:29Dina, don't lie to me.

00:30:31I'm not lying, darling.

00:30:33Dr. Harding did a beautiful job.

00:30:35Your hands will be perfect.

00:30:37Dr. Harding?

00:30:49Perfect, Dr. Harding.

00:30:51In your terms or in mine?

00:30:53In yours.

00:30:55In just a few weeks, you'll have full flexibility again.

00:30:57Full timing.

00:30:59Might have enough to happen to my hands.

00:31:01You're lucky it was only this.

00:31:03Glass was shattered from every window of the cab.

00:31:07You can see to play.

00:31:09And you will.

00:31:11All you need is that belief.

00:31:13And some patience.

00:31:22Not very aesthetic, is it, George?

00:31:27Might make an unusual shot for our next poster.

00:31:30You're going to be all right, Vernon.

00:31:33Does Eileen know about this?

00:31:35I don't know.

00:31:37But she was at the party.

00:31:39Isn't that where they notified you?

00:31:41Yes.

00:31:42Well, it's all right.

00:31:45My little dramatic butterfly wouldn't like it here very much.

00:31:49No bright lights, mixed stoles.

00:31:53You don't serve martinis.

00:31:54Do you, doctor?

00:31:55Not for the time being.

00:31:56Well, I guess she'll be around again when things aren't so stark and sterile.

00:32:00It'll be a month before we can remove the bandages.

00:32:02You can go home in a week.

00:32:03I think you'll be more comfortable there.

00:32:04Home.

00:32:05Or I can stare at the piano.

00:32:06I wonder how long it's going to be.

00:32:07And how good it'll ever be again.

00:32:08So you can stare at it.

00:32:23Remind yourself to be patient.

00:32:27To fight for something that's important.

00:32:29And beautiful.

00:32:38Perfect fusion on both.

00:32:39You've done it, Gil.

00:32:41Not yet.

00:32:42All we know is that his body's accepted the hands.

00:32:45We don't know how they're going to function.

00:32:47But nobody's even gotten this far before.

00:32:49Do you realize what that means?

00:32:51It only means we've taken a step, Ken.

00:32:53That's not enough.

00:32:54Not enough?

00:32:55Gil, even if the rest fails.

00:32:58If the nerve and muscle connections don't work.

00:33:00It must work.

00:33:01But you can't hope for too much.

00:33:03Why not?

00:33:04It's the only way we have the courage to take the next step.

00:33:07At the next.

00:33:09Well, when will we now?

00:33:11That's why I've called you in here.

00:33:13I've waited longer than I planned to be sure.

00:33:16Now...

00:33:18I'm going over to remove the bandages and make the first reflex test.

00:33:22I want you all there because you helped make it possible.

00:33:25Also, I think you'll need all the moral support we can give him.

00:33:29This may not be pleasant, so if any of you don't want to come, say so.

00:33:34Russ?

00:33:35Kenny?

00:33:36Holly?

00:33:37Did I ever tell you I couldn't stand the sight of blood?

00:33:41Let's see if our dream is a realistic one.

00:33:44If it's possible to recreate beauty out of chaos.

00:33:49Dina, push the lamp back a little.

00:33:50We don't need that much.

00:33:51Dina, push the lamp back a little.

00:33:52We don't need that much.

00:33:53We don't need that much.

00:34:14I hope you don't mind an audience.

00:34:24Russ, Ken, and Holly all helped the night of the accident.

00:34:27I'm used to audiences.

00:34:29Glad to have one again after so long.

00:34:32These weeks of waiting haven't been easy, but if it ends well, I'll be grateful to all of you.

00:34:37Are you ready?

00:34:38After seven weeks, yes, I'm ready.

00:34:39You must do one thing for me.

00:34:40I ask you not to question it.

00:34:41I want you to close your eyes and keep them closed until I tell you.

00:34:44That shouldn't be so hard.

00:34:45Only a few more minutes after seven weeks.

00:34:46Apparently, dramatics aren't limited to the stage.

00:34:50I'll видно the camera's over.

00:34:51Is there a tomorrow shown on the right track?

00:34:52How did you learn?

00:34:53Turn in there huh?

00:35:02Don't rush your window.

00:35:09Not worry.

00:35:10Well, you've got 14 minutes left.

00:35:12You haven't got enough room of Gaelon to go.

00:35:15Uh, I can't go.

00:35:16Uh, it looks very neat.

00:35:49Keep your hands flat on the table.

00:35:53Now, I'm going to touch the fingers of your hand.

00:35:59Each time when you feel the touch, I want you to move that finger.

00:36:19I'm going to move that finger.

00:36:31Now, I'm going to move that finger.

00:36:33Please, put your finger.

00:36:37But, we're going to turn off some finger.

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00:38:25Open your eyes.

00:38:55What have you done to my hands?

00:39:03They were terribly mangled in the accident.

00:39:06We've made it possible.

00:39:07What have you done?

00:39:08We've made it possible for you to have perfectly good hands.

00:39:11These are my hands?

00:39:16What have you done?

00:39:17We've given you hands, while you had none.

00:39:21When we arrived at the hospital, we were faced with a tragedy.

00:39:24We didn't accept that.

00:39:26We fought to restore the beauty that was so important to you.

00:39:29And we did.

00:39:31They're strong, normal hands.

00:39:34And your bodies accepted them.

00:39:36Now you must accept them.

00:39:38And fight.

00:39:39Why?

00:39:40Why?

00:39:40Because it is.

00:39:42What have you done with my hands?

00:39:43What you brought to the hospital were no longer hands.

00:39:54What have you done with my hands?

00:40:10What have you done with my hands?

00:40:11What have you done with my hands?

00:40:13Stand up.

00:40:28Take hold of my arm.

00:40:32Take hold of my arm.

00:40:33Both hands.

00:40:44Rip it. As hard as he can.

00:40:51The fact that you can even do that proves the muscles work.

00:40:56Can you feel my arm?

00:41:00That proves the nerves are functioning.

00:41:03Muscles and nerves, that's all you need.

00:41:05These hands are new, but your talent isn't.

00:41:08What happened to you seven weeks ago was cruel.

00:41:10What I'm doing to you now is cruel.

00:41:13But what we did in that operating room wasn't.

00:41:15Now you can accept or you can quit.

00:41:17It's up to you.

00:41:26Get out.

00:41:28Vernon, all of you.

00:41:43Get out.

00:41:44Get out.

00:41:49Patience.

00:41:51Exercise.

00:41:53Belief.

00:41:55There's every chance in the world.

00:41:59Every chance.

00:42:01That beauty can once more be created by your surgical freak.

00:42:05It can.

00:42:07You're right, doctor.

00:42:09You were cruel just now.

00:42:12But your bluntness has restored reality for me.

00:42:16I'm just not sure how long it can remain.

00:42:19I suggest you leave now.

00:42:20Tomorrow we'll talk about that reality.

00:42:29I'll be back, Vernon.

00:42:30I'll be back, Vernon.

00:42:44Dina.

00:42:45I know, George.

00:42:47Thank you, I'll call.

00:43:00Let him have his anger and torment for now.

00:43:06I think he'll be strong enough later to accept the fight.

00:43:10His finger reactions weren't even right.

00:43:13Yes, they were.

00:43:14But when you touched them.

00:43:15I touched the fingers on each hand in sequence at first.

00:43:18Then I deliberately changed the sequence.

00:43:20The finger that reacted was the one he thought should react next.

00:43:23Then I went back and touched the finger and it moved.

00:43:26It's simply a matter of mental coordination on his part.

00:43:31Seems so much to expect.

00:43:33Dina, what we've done has never been done before.

00:43:37It's a triumph for us.

00:43:39But it's got to be one for him, too.

00:43:40I think I'd better move in here for a while.

00:43:44He'll need you.

00:43:46I wonder if there'll ever be a day when he doesn't.

00:44:07Please leave me alone.

00:44:08Please leave me alone.

00:44:12I know how hard it is for you to accept.

00:44:15But do you realize what Gil has done for you?

00:44:19He asked.

00:44:21He made them come true.

00:44:23All those dreams I've had through the years about something happening to my hands.

00:44:27Gil's genius has made it possible for your talent to continue.

00:44:31His genius with a knife and the human body has put on my arms the hands of some man I don't even know.

00:44:35Is that important if you can play again?

00:44:38Important?

00:44:40It's important my sanity can even accept that these are mine.

00:44:44This genius has given me hands to feel with.

00:44:46But can he guarantee these stolen chunks of flesh and bone will ever be?

00:44:49These are your hands.

00:44:52Now it's up to you to make them sing in the future as they did in the past.

00:44:56It's you who control your hands.

00:44:58Don't you understand?

00:45:00I was my hands.

00:45:02They were my life.

00:45:04Now I'm carrying the life of someone I know nothing about.

00:45:05Then you must learn again.

00:45:08Or you will have no life.

00:45:10Why me?

00:45:12Why couldn't this have happened to that cab driver who doesn't need his hands so much?

00:45:16I only know from Gil that the man suffered too.

00:45:20His life may not be as delicate or as complex as yours.

00:45:24But I'm sure he'll fight to maintain it.

00:45:34Leave me alone.

00:45:36I'm going to stay here for a while.

00:45:39I'll be back as soon as I get some things from my apartment.

00:45:47Please be patient.

00:45:48Please be patient.

00:46:18Oh yes.

00:46:20Bye.

00:47:18Why, you're a half-hour.

00:47:44Why, Vernon, what a pleasant surprise.

00:47:49I want to talk to you.

00:47:50I can't right now.

00:47:51It's important.

00:47:53All right, but I only have a few minutes.

00:47:55You always did have a talent for creating the proper visual mood.

00:48:14This is no concern of yours.

00:48:15Obviously, since our relationship is primarily a social one.

00:48:18What does that mean?

00:48:19It must be if you haven't been interested enough to see me during these past weeks.

00:48:23I called the hospital the following day, left my sympathies.

00:48:26Very generous of you.

00:48:27Vernon, I'm very sorry about your accident, but...

00:48:29Pain isn't a desirable substitute for laughter and excitement, is it?

00:48:33Vernon, I've had a great many things to do.

00:48:35I'm also expecting a guest within a half hour.

00:48:37A guest?

00:48:38You don't own me, Vernon.

00:48:39I know.

00:48:49But now I need you.

00:48:50How interesting.

00:48:52Well, there were times when I needed you.

00:48:54Remember your favorite line?

00:48:56That would be too much like playing a great composition over and over.

00:48:59You had to play many in order to live and grow as an artist.

00:49:02There's a difference now.

00:49:05I can't explain everything right away, but my life has changed.

00:49:07You've got to understand.

00:49:09Vernon, if one of your other women has put you in your place,

00:49:11I don't see any reason to come crying to me.

00:49:13That's not it.

00:49:14Yes, there were others.

00:49:15There were others for you, too.

00:49:16I don't think either of us had any illusions about that.

00:49:19But for me, you were always the most important, the loveliest.

00:49:23In the back of my mind, maybe I always thought, someday...

00:49:26Vernon, neither of us ever thought that someday.

00:49:28You were always a very exciting, very desirable man.

00:49:32But this attitude in you now, this heaviness, I don't like it at all.

00:49:35I'll be very happy to see you on the old basis,

00:49:37but right now, I'd wish you'd go.

00:49:38What if the old basis has been changed by something I can do nothing about?

00:49:41I don't like you this way, and I don't like riddles.

00:49:43What if there won't be any concerts or parties?

00:49:45What if they'll only be me?

00:49:46Stop it, Vernon.

00:49:47I've never seen you this way, and I don't want you this way.

00:49:49What if they'll only be me?

00:49:50Stop it, stop it.

00:49:51Answer me.

00:49:52Let me go.

00:49:52Your hands are breaking my arms.

00:49:54Your hands.

00:49:54Yes, my hands.

00:49:56The hands that brought you concerts, parties, glamour, excitement.

00:49:59That's what happened when you called to leave your sympathies.

00:50:01My hands that you knew so well.

00:50:04Blah!

00:50:07They don't look like my hands, do they?

00:50:09They're not.

00:50:10My hands were destroyed the night of my greatest concert.

00:50:13But medical science gave me a new pair of hands,

00:50:15hands from another body, so that I can play again.

00:50:17Yes, Eileen, I may play again, but I may not.

00:50:20What if there'll only be me?

00:50:21What will you do if I need your help now more than I need your beauty?

00:50:24Don't touch me.

00:50:24What if you take off?

00:50:31You too, Holly.

00:50:32Kenny can handle an emergency tonight.

00:50:35Oh, sure.

00:50:36And when do I get a chance to get married?

00:50:37I have a girl who's pretty fed up already.

00:50:38Who ever heard of young doctors getting married?

00:50:39You have to be middle-aged before you can afford to be married.

00:50:43Yeah, I see what you mean.

00:50:44Come on, Junior.

00:50:45I have a new trick I want to show you with a scalpel.

00:50:54Yeah.

00:50:54Well, we won't.

00:50:54Well, I've got a whole thing.

00:50:55No, sir, hold on.

00:50:58One hand, turn off.

00:50:59My hand, turn off.

00:51:01The door.

00:51:02You need to take off.

00:51:03You too, Holly.

00:51:04Kenny can handle emergency tonight.

00:51:05I have a new trick I'm going to show you with a scalpel.

00:51:12You know, I've got a boyfriend who's the greatest guy in the world, but...

00:51:18Holly, never get interested in a dedicated man.

00:51:22He may look good on the surface, but you can always end up second.

00:51:26No matter how much he feels for you.

00:51:29Thanks, Gail, for putting it the nice way.

00:51:33She's a lucky girl.

00:51:35I know this must make me look pretty much like a snoop,

00:51:55but I'm sure you understand it's part of my job.

00:51:58I also understand we made a bargain.

00:52:01With a time factor that was up a week ago.

00:52:03You see, I'm not without patience.

00:52:05The main point was I'd give you the complete story as soon as it was possible.

00:52:09You implied you'd trust my judgment.

00:52:11Yes, I remember, but there's a problem.

00:52:14I have somewhat of a neurotic respect for perfection in my work.

00:52:17I don't like to see assignments go unsolved.

00:52:20Although I recognize there's no set schedule for the solution.

00:52:23Specifically, the fingerprints you gave me have been thoroughly checked, and they gave me nothing.

00:52:30And you think I gave you a false set.

00:52:32You're not that kind of a man.

00:52:35We're in the process of checking them through foreign bureaus, but while we're waiting, I thought there might be something new you could offer to keep my mind at peace.

00:52:44There's nothing I can tell you yet.

00:52:47There's a human factor that's involved that's critical.

00:52:50Trust me a while longer.

00:52:54Very well.

00:52:54Thanks.

00:52:57In the meantime, please remember my wife and children.

00:53:03When I got back last night, he was sitting at the piano, dazed.

00:53:09He didn't say a word all night.

00:53:11I don't think he went to sleep either.

00:53:14And then in the morning came the tragic news of the death of a woman who was very important to him.

00:53:19He was more depressed.

00:53:21When did he leave?

00:53:22Late this morning.

00:53:24He said he wanted to be alone.

00:53:25I wanted to go with him, but he was cruel in the way he rejected me.

00:53:31I'm frightened.

00:53:32Don't be frightened.

00:53:34It's natural in the beginning.

00:53:36He's got to feel sorry for himself, hate everyone and everything that caused this.

00:53:41He'll be back.

00:53:42I hope you're right.

00:53:44In the meantime, I think the separation's good for us.

00:53:48Let's have dinner.

00:53:49We've never done that.

00:53:50I know a little place with violence not far from here.

00:53:54We'll be back early.

00:54:02Is Tony Wilder live here?

00:54:12Yes, sir.

00:54:13Is he in?

00:54:14No, sir, but he'll be back in a little while.

00:54:17He went to get something.

00:54:18A dog.

00:54:19Isn't that great?

00:54:20I'm an old friend of his used to ride in his cab all the time.

00:54:24I want to talk to him.

00:54:26I really shouldn't let you in, but...

00:54:29I guess you look okay.

00:54:32You like dogs?

00:54:35Okay, come on in.

00:54:37You ever had a dog?

00:54:51Hey, mister, you ever had a dog?

00:54:54Yes, a long time ago.

00:54:56And you were a kid like me, huh?

00:55:04You had a piano once, too?

00:55:05Were you any good?

00:55:10I'm good, too.

00:55:13Want me to play for you?

00:55:15Well, I'm not bad, honest.

00:55:18I like to play.

00:55:19Dad's never asked to make me.

00:55:24You know a lot about the piano?

00:55:31I'll play a real great tune I just learned.

00:55:34It'll make you feel better, because...

00:55:35You don't look so hot.

00:55:38No.

00:55:40Not right now.

00:55:42Come on.

00:55:43I like to play for people.

00:55:46Helps me not to be nervous.

00:55:50I'll make you a deal.

00:55:51If you don't like it, I'll quit.

00:55:53Okay?

00:55:53And they were both killed when we were very small.

00:56:03We ended up with relatives who resented the obligation.

00:56:07So, more or less, we banded together for emotional survival.

00:56:11We both had a great desire for life, and even then, that's important for him now.

00:56:15Perhaps.

00:56:16But I think we became too close as a result, too dependent.

00:56:21I had talent, too, but his was greater.

00:56:23I used my talent to help him.

00:56:25The whole thing was a calculated plan to bring us independence and freedom.

00:56:30And now, just when we were both reaching a point when we could be truly free.

00:56:36Tina, nothing's going to be wasted.

00:56:39Don't you see?

00:56:40By going through this, he can become part of a new and even greater kind of beauty.

00:56:44Maybe that's a lot to imagine right now.

00:56:46But eventually, there can be no such thing as a permanently defective heart, a permanent cripple, a permanent birth malformation, blindness.

00:56:54Oh, there'll always be accidental deaths.

00:56:57But from these tragedies, science will be able to sustain and recreate joy for the living.

00:57:02And when people know that a worn out or defective part of their body can be replaced,

00:57:08they'll approach life itself with a great deal less fear.

00:57:11Three thousand years of research, Tina.

00:57:14Then we're just beginning.

00:57:17This is the next major step, and he's the key part of it.

00:57:21If it had to happen, I thank God we found you.

00:57:27Gil, whose hands are they?

00:57:29We don't know yet, but they're strong, normal hands.

00:57:33They might be hands from someone even more talented than Vernon.

00:57:36But they could be from someone.

00:57:37Don't let fear drive you into a pit of superstition.

00:57:40But are we sure the soul really controls the outside?

00:57:44Or is what we call a soul really shaped by our own pleasures or hatreds with the outside?

00:57:51And how they're accepted by the world?

00:57:53If you love beauty, you conquer handicaps so beauty can live.

00:57:57And if you don't.

00:58:01Well, mister, how did you like it?

00:58:04Yeah.

00:58:04Well, you play very well.

00:58:07You mean it?

00:58:09You could be good.

00:58:10Very good if you practice.

00:58:12Did you practice a lot when you were a kid?

00:58:16Yes, I practiced a lot when I was like you.

00:58:18But I can't remember many things about being ten years old.

00:58:28Yes.

00:58:30Yes, I can.

00:58:32Are you still any good?

00:58:36I don't know.

00:58:37Come on and try.

00:58:38I want to hear you play now.

00:58:46First, you've got to take your gloves off.

00:58:49Whoever heard of playing the piano with their gloves on?

00:58:52I can't take them off.

00:58:53Sure you can.

00:58:54You put them on, didn't you?

00:58:55Mm-hmm.

00:58:56Gee, mister, you've got strong hands.

00:59:17Maybe someday I'll have hands with that.

00:59:19So I can play a lot easier.

00:59:21Gee, mister, you've got strong hands.

00:59:23Maybe someday I'll have hands with that.

00:59:25Maybe someday I'll have hands with that.

00:59:26Come on.

00:59:27Come on.

00:59:55Gee, mister, it must have been a long time, because you sure can't play now.

01:00:03How can you play the piano if you can't even hit the chords?

01:00:07Don't say that.

01:00:08I can't play.

01:00:09I will play again.

01:00:10Music is my life.

01:00:11You mustn't say I can't play.

01:00:12I will play again.

01:00:12I've never known anything else.

01:00:26That's why I'll play again.

01:00:29I must play again.

01:00:32You see that, don't you?

01:00:33I can't play again.

01:00:34I'm going to play again.

01:00:38Gee, gee.

01:00:39A home, gee.

01:00:40Be safe.

01:00:40I know it's strange, but you'll get used to it.

01:00:42Skeet!

01:00:44Skeet!

01:00:46Skeet!

01:00:48Skeet!

01:00:50Skeet!

01:00:52Skeet!

01:00:54Skeet!

01:00:56Skeet!

01:00:58Skeet!

01:01:00Skeet!

01:01:02Skeet!

01:01:04Skeet!

01:01:06Skeet!

01:01:08Skeet!

01:01:10Skeet!

01:01:12Skeet!

01:01:14Skeet!

01:01:16Skeet, where are you?

01:01:40This time, I don't think we'll have to be as critical.

01:02:10You can open.

01:02:40It's all working.

01:02:42Should I say congratulations again, Doctor?

01:02:44To yourself, for your patience.

01:02:47Every finger response was correct.

01:02:49The timing was a little slow, but with this much progress this soon, there's no reason why full dexterity can't return.

01:02:54All you need now is a strong incentive.

01:02:58That's something you've had for a long time.

01:03:01Yes, Doctor.

01:03:03I think I'll enlarge on your exercises.

01:03:06To include the piano.

01:03:08Congratulations.

01:03:09Congratulations.

01:03:10Congratulations.

01:03:16It's wonderful, Mr. Paris.

01:03:17Ouch.

01:03:18I want you and Dina to have dinner with me tonight.

01:03:20Go someplace where we can laugh for a change.

01:03:22How about it?

01:03:23It's time to see again what the outside world and smiling faces look like.

01:03:26How about it?

01:03:27How about it?

01:03:28How about it?

01:03:29How about it?

01:03:30How about it?

01:03:31How about it?

01:03:32How about it?

01:03:33How about it?

01:03:34How about it?

01:03:35How about it?

01:03:36How about it?

01:03:37How about it?

01:03:38Good.

01:03:39How about it?

01:03:40You didn't know, what's your time?

01:03:41What's your idea?

01:03:42It's all about it.

01:03:44How about it?

01:03:45Ha ha ha ha ha!

01:03:48Ha! Ha ha ha ha!

01:03:51Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

01:04:15The End

01:04:45The End

01:05:15Yes, sir, a beautiful throw, a beautiful throw. Here's a smiling little doll to take home with you to remind you of your shining hour.

01:05:29You take that thing home and you're going to be the one that has to dust it.

01:05:36Test this game of skill. Win yourself a beautiful prize or a tryout with the L.A. Dodgers.

01:05:45Well, a warm-up pitch. Only a warm-up pitch. Even the greatest need that. Try again.

01:06:08Hey, what are you? Some kind of a nut making fun? That'll be 20 bucks, buddy.

01:06:26I'm sorry.

01:06:27Forget the sorry. I said 20 bucks, buddy. And if you don't know how to use your hands, stay away from here.

01:06:32I'm going to call a cop.

01:06:37Okay, wait a minute. Here's more than enough to take care of the damage.

01:06:42All right. But I'm still going to call a cop. That guy is some kind of a nut.

01:06:46Look, here's some more. Please forget it. He's a patient of mine. He's been through quite enough as it is.

01:06:52Give him a break.

01:06:52Okay. But if you can't handle him, buddy, we've got a place right down the street that has specializes in freaks.

01:07:01Give him a break.

01:07:31Vernon, you know how proud I am of you. The new attitude you've had since Gil returned.

01:07:41Are you?

01:07:42Very. Remember the night the three of us went out together?

01:07:46I remember.

01:07:47It started then, didn't it?

01:07:49I think it started a long time before that.

01:07:52Gil's proud of you, too. I told him you've been practicing every day since then.

01:07:56You don't know how important it is to him that he used his skill to bring you a new life.

01:08:01Yes. They all brought me a new life.

01:08:04And for me.

01:08:06I think you know how I've come to feel about Gil.

01:08:10I want you to be happy for that, too.

01:08:13I'm very glad that you've come to mean so much to each other.

01:08:16Why won't you let me stay on nights that you practice?

01:08:22You know me at my best. I want you to hear me that way the next time.

01:08:27Besides, you haven't regretted all the time you've been able to spend with him, have you?

01:08:32All right. I'll wait.

01:08:34What time will you be back tonight?

01:08:35Eleven or twelve. Just dinner and a conversation.

01:08:38Have a good time.

01:08:39Have a good time.

01:09:09Hey, don't you want to marry me?

01:09:19Yeah.

01:09:21Yeah.

01:09:22When?

01:09:25A year or so, maybe.

01:09:29I can't ask you to live on what I'm making now.

01:09:32I can't even live on it.

01:09:33I wouldn't mind working. I've done it before.

01:09:35Well, you might have to if we get married in a year or so.

01:09:39Then why not now?

01:09:43It's just too rough.

01:09:44And you're too intent on your work.

01:09:46I admit it.

01:09:47It's the future, Sue, and I've got a chance to be a part of something wonderful.

01:09:53I guess I'm selfish because I want it to be the right kind of future.

01:10:01For my work and for us.

01:10:06Don't you understand?

01:10:07You know I do.

01:10:09It's just that I wish there could be more time for us.

01:10:12I'm not going to stop loving you, Ken.

01:10:17It's just that the nights get lonely out.

01:10:21It's just that when I get married.

01:10:38Oh, my God.

01:10:41Totally.

01:11:52It can't be.

01:11:54Gil?

01:11:55Gil Kennett?

01:11:56Must be a record.

01:11:57He never bought any of his own records.

01:11:59He was always afraid of becoming a mechanical copy of himself.

01:12:02I know his style so well.

01:12:04I don't know. It may be possible.

01:12:07If he's really been practicing and exercising the way you said.

01:12:10It's one of his more simple pieces.

01:12:13Gil, Gil, it must be.

01:12:24Oh, Vernon, was that you playing?

01:12:26Oh, I'm sorry you heard.

01:12:28I wanted it to be when I was a little better.

01:12:29Oh, it sounded wonderful.

01:12:31Well, it's the only one I've worked on and it's taken me all these weeks.

01:12:35What does the man who made it all possible have to say?

01:12:39I'm surprised.

01:12:40Well, you told me yourself there was no reason why it shouldn't happen.

01:12:43With exercise, practice.

01:12:45Yes, I know.

01:12:46But I didn't expect this much dexterity this soon.

01:12:49Not even when the incentive, the desire to create beauty is strong enough?

01:12:54You did your work well, doctor.

01:12:56Now I'm doing mine.

01:12:56If it's true, there's no one outside you two who could be happier than I am.

01:13:01Then smile, doctor.

01:13:03Get rid of that troubled questioning look.

01:13:05Help us rejoice in the success of our mutual triumph.

01:13:09I know what I have to do now.

01:13:10Please play for us.

01:13:13It's been very hard to get this far.

01:13:15And I think even the doctor will tell you that it's natural to expect fatigue to set in easily.

01:13:20I'll make it soon.

01:13:23It will be.

01:13:23If I understand one thing, I want to believe, then do it, doctor.

01:13:31Do it because you, too, have the incentive.

01:13:33Gil.

01:13:34Gil.

01:13:53Well, I'm sorry.

01:13:57I know he was a close associate of yours.

01:14:00Did you know the girl, too?

01:14:03Tragedies of this kind are always senseless, but I'm afraid I have to press you about the significance behind it.

01:14:09How can there be any significance to waste?

01:14:11Some time ago, I read a routine report about a death that occurred in the suburbs.

01:14:15A man came home and found his son dead, apparently as the result of a burglar who was discovered and panicked.

01:14:22The unusual thing was that most of the boy's fingers were broken.

01:14:27Possibly it was the result of a fight, except that the fingers were all squeezed together as if they'd been crushed.

01:14:32The man was an ex-cab driver named Wilder.

01:14:38Will you raise the sheet farther this time and look at your friend's hands?

01:14:41I'm done with the bookend.

01:14:55If you're thinking it might have been a burglar, forget it.

01:14:57It was calculated the bookend was placed in the girl's hand to make it look as if she defended herself against a sex attack.

01:15:03Then you have your answer.

01:15:06That's rather difficult to believe, since the girl was choked to death.

01:15:09A series of tragedies with one thing in common, the human hand.

01:15:13The same thing that brought us together, Doctor.

01:15:15It's ridiculous to assume that...

01:15:16Is it?

01:15:18Perhaps, if anybody else but your friend had been involved.

01:15:21This is the kind of coincidence that forces me to become less patient.

01:15:25I think I know now what's happened.

01:15:27If I'm correct, it's an amazing piece of surgery, Doctor.

01:15:34Under the circumstances, I must insist you meet me at my office within a half hour.

01:15:39I hope I'm wrong.

01:15:44I hope this is pure coincidence.

01:15:46Otherwise, it means you failed to control an experiment that could have been of great value.

01:15:51Regardless, both of our objectives are the same.

01:15:55I think you know why I wanted you to be the first to hear me play.

01:16:02Vernon, I've never been so happy.

01:16:04You won't mind if it's the same piece?

01:16:05I wouldn't care if it was the scale of C in one octave, just to know you won't play again.

01:16:10Even though I can't play, I'm still nervous about... about these hands.

01:16:15It takes all my concentration.

01:16:17Would you mind sitting in the other room just this once?

01:16:19I'd listen to you from the other end of the world if it would help make you great again.

01:16:23Dina, I want you to remember just one thing.

01:16:27Tonight, I'll play my greatest concert.

01:16:30I need you to help make it complete.

01:16:33I'll remember.

01:16:33Now, what do you want?

01:17:04Destroy the very thing I created?

01:17:06Help him.

01:17:07Any jury will call it insanity.

01:17:08With proper treatment, he can be brought back.

01:17:10And Ken?

01:17:12And I?

01:17:13Girl, I was almost as close to Ken as you were.

01:17:16But even his sacrifice can't stop our work.

01:17:18It mustn't.

01:17:19How stupid I was.

01:17:21What he said about incentive.

01:17:23Oh, yes, he had one, all right.

01:17:26Vengeance on everyone he thought destroyed his ability to create music.

01:17:30The driver.

01:17:32Ken.

01:17:33I think we can take care of ourselves.

01:17:36Dina.

01:17:37She's with him.

01:17:38He won't hurt her.

01:17:39She's on his side.

01:17:40We're the enemies.

01:17:41With a maniac as shrewd as he's become, I won't take that chance.

01:17:44I'm coming to him.

01:17:45No, you're involved enough.

01:17:47Go home to your security.

01:17:48Try to figure out why it's so hard to find for men like me.

01:17:51And don't make the same mistakes.

01:17:52Are you sure about this?

01:18:13It must be.

01:18:14He made a special point about it.

01:18:16Tonight, I'll play my greatest concert.

01:18:17Dina, I...

01:18:21Oh, I don't blame you, Gil.

01:18:23How can you blame anybody for this?

01:18:25I just feel numb for all the loneliness and misery he must be feeling inside.

01:18:30I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:31I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:32I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:33I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:34I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:35I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:36I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:37I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:38I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:39I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:40I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:41I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:42I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:43I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:44I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:45I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:46I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:47I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:48I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:50I don't blame anybody for this.

01:18:51Thank you for remembering what I said Dina. I was sure I could depend on the audience. Very important part of a concert.

01:19:09Yes, I'm going to play for you doctor. I'm used to a great deal of applause after my concerts.

01:19:17What could be more desirable than applause from the man who made it all possible? There were others almost as much a part of it as you who should be here.

01:19:24But I don't think we'd find their applause very enthusiastic now. I did manage to convince one of them though.

01:19:39We had a long chat on the way down here. Turns out he was very partial to music and my future ability.

01:19:45The only trouble was he didn't mean it. He was only trying to trick me.

01:19:49Why Vernon? It was only a matter of time before you would have played again.

01:19:54Time. Time to cut off these hands and give me others and others if those don't work.

01:19:58Yes, the doctor has all the time he needs in his laboratory. He can do anything except give me back my life.

01:20:04He tried to save that life. He failed. How do you know yet?

01:20:08Shall I show you? It's too soon.

01:20:11I said I was going to play for you. I am. Now.

01:20:18But I want you beside me, Dina, because you were always there in the past.

01:20:21You can't go out there. He still needs me. It's a trick.

01:20:25I might be able to humor him. Still save him. I've got to.

01:20:29It's too much of a chance. You can't do it.

01:20:31Then take a gun and go out there and shoot him now.

01:20:34Listen! Behold the wonders of medical science and your kind doctor.

01:20:48Listen, behold the wonders of medical science and your kind doctor.

01:21:03Your triumph doctor, and now mine.

01:21:17Let her go.

01:21:36Go on back, we'll be all right.

01:21:45The talented Dr. Harding, still in charge.

01:21:48You're right about one thing.

01:21:50I'm not responsible for the loss of your hands.

01:21:56But I am for this.

01:21:58Like your friend, you imagine yourself a clever psychologist.

01:22:01It won't work, doctor.

01:22:03You're interested in nothing but vengeance?

01:22:05Beauty is no longer important to you.

01:22:07On the contrary.

01:22:08Justice is a form of moral beauty.

01:22:10Or is that too unscientific?

01:22:12I did everything I could, surgically.

01:22:14And your bodies accepted it.

01:22:18Beyond that, I know I failed you.

01:22:21Your mind couldn't accept it.

01:22:23That's very beautiful.

01:22:25What a shame it's only meant to throw me off guard.

01:22:28What do you want?

01:22:29I want you to take another look at your work.

01:22:31Just for this moment, I want to share this triumph with you.

01:22:35To be theなた стены, he lives and says,

01:22:37To be the world you live in.

01:22:38Be the howon fight is late!

01:22:39O.K.

01:22:40I need emotionally, whatever you have to confront us with you.

01:22:41Even a автом.

01:22:42Chuck is just a shriekingiles good.

01:22:44I need someone who works without the��.

01:22:45I need you, Mr. Harding.

01:22:46But I need you.

01:22:47Who he you are.

01:22:48Forgive me?

01:22:50Take care of yourself.

01:22:51How's he?

01:22:52Whoo-hoo!

01:23:22Come on!

01:23:48Have you found out whose hands they are?

01:23:50And yet, does it make any difference?

01:23:56I think you know we'll have to talk some more.

01:24:00Then maybe you'll be able to tell me if we have the right to push ahead so fast.

01:24:05Even when you believe.

01:24:10Men like you, who aren't afraid to grow,

01:24:14they'll always be the right.

01:24:50THE END

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