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The Stranger's Hand

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The Stranger's Hand
Directed byMario Soldati
Written byGiorgio Bassani
Guy Elmes
Based onThe Stranger's Hand by Graham Greene
Produced byAngelo Rizzoli
Graham Greene
Peter Moore
John Stafford
StarringTrevor Howard
Alida Valli
Richard Basehart
CinematographyEnzo Serafin
Edited byTom Simpson
Leslie Hogdson
Leo Catozzo
Music byNino Rota
Alessandro Cicognini
Production
companies
Milo Film
Rizzoli Film
Independent Film Producers
Distributed byBritish Lion Films
Release date
  • 20 January 1954 (1954-01-20)
Running time
85 minutes
CountriesItaly
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£164,200[1]

The Stranger's Hand (Italian: La mano dello straniero) is a 1954 British-Italian thriller drama film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Trevor Howard, Alida Valli and Richard Basehart. An international co-production, it is based on the draft treatment with the same name written by Graham Greene.[2] The plot follows the son of a British MI5 agent kidnapped in Venice by agents of Yugoslavia as he searches for his father.

Greene used a pseudonym to enter the first two chapters of The Stranger's Hand in a competition organized by the New Statesman which called for submissions in the style of Graham Greene. His entry won second prize. Soldati saw the chapters and persuaded Greene to complete the story to serve as the basis for a film. Greene expanded it to 30 pages of a "film story", and Giorgio Bassani and Guy Elmes used Greene's work as the basis for their screenplay.[3]

In the New York Times, Bosley Crowther enjoyed the film's use of situations and themes typical of Greene, but thought Soldati allowed the story to "sag like a slack rope".[4]

Cast

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References

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  1. ↑ Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 359. The British budget was £77,525, with the balance provided in lira by the Italian co-production partner. The certified sterling cost came to £92,235.
  2. ↑ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876055487.
  3. ↑ Thomson, Ian (23 December 2005). "God beneath the banalities". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 September 2026.
  4. ↑ Crowther, Bosley (16 February 1955). "'Hand' of Greene; British Writer's Touch Seen in Plaza Film". New York Times. Retrieved 1 September 2026.

Bibliography

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  • Spicer, Andrew. Historical Dictionary of Film Noir. Scarecrow Press, 2010.
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