Death in the Hand
Death in the Hand is a 1948 British short mystery film directed by A. Barr-Smith, starring Esme Percy, Ernest Jay and Cecile Chevreau. It was made by the small independent company Vandyke Productions.
Plot
In a seaside guest house, a nervous piano player, Cosmo Vaughan, tells a tale of how he read the palms of passengers on board a train and forecast their deaths. But is Mr Vaughan quite what he appears?Cast
- Esme Percy as Cosmo Vaughan
- Ernest Jay as MacRae
- Cecile Chevreau as Sylvia Mottram
- Carleton Hobbs as Chairman
- John Le Mesurier as Jack Mottram
- Shelagh Fraser as Penelope MacRae
- J. Hubert Leslie as Waiter
- Nuna Davey as Countrywoman
- Norman Shelley as Businessman
- Wilfrid Caithness as Rowlandson
- Thea Wells as Mrs Rowlandson