Main Cast: Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop, Willie Best, Frank Wilcox
Release Year: 1942
Country: US
Run Time: 67 minutes
Plot
Everybody seems to have had a good time making the overripe melodrama The Hidden Hand, especially cadaverous Milton Parsons as insane-asylum escapee John Channing. In her efforts to protect her brother from the authorities, John's sister Lorinda (Cecil Cunningham) opens the door for a series of grisly murders. Hero Peter Thorne (Craig Stevens) and heroine Mary Winfield (Elizabeth Fraser) try to stop John before he overracts-er, kills-again. Absolutely impossible to take seriously, The Hidden Hand is nonetheless worth a glance, if for no other reason than to see perennial bit player Parsons in a juicy leading role. The film was based on Invitation to a Murder, a play by Rufus King. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Stanley Fleischer - Art Director, Milo Anderson - Costume Designer, Benjamin Stoloff - Director, Harold McLernon - Editor, Perc Westmore - Makeup, Henry Sharp - Cinematographer, William Jacobs - Producer, George James Hopkins - Set Designer, Everett A. Brown - Sound/Sound Designer, Anthony Coldeway - Screenwriter, Raymond Schrock - Screenwriter, Rufus King - Play Author
