Unseen Hands

Unseen Hands
Unseen Hands
Directed by	Jacques Jaccard
Written by	Walker Coleman Graves Jr.
Produced by	Walker Coleman Graves Jr.
Starring	Wallace Beery ; Joseph J. Dowling ; Fontaine La Rue
Cinematography	Alfred Gosden ; John J. Pasztor
Production; company	Encore Pictures
Distributed by	Associated Exhibitors
Release date	May 25, 1924;
Running time	65 min
Country	United States
Languages	Silent ; English intertitles

Unseen Hands is a 1924 American silent horror film directed by Jacques Jaccard and starring Wallace Beery, Joseph J. Dowling and Fontaine La Rue.^[1] This was apparently the only horror film Jaccard directed, although he made over 80 (mostly action and Western) films from 1914 to 1936. It was also producer Walker Coleman Graves Jr.'s only screenwriting credit.^[2]

Plot

Jean Scholast (Beery) makes a favorable impression on a wealthy businessman's wife (La Rue), and she gets her husband George Le Quintrec to hire him. Scholast works his way into the millionaire's life, stealing his wife and his fortune, and eventually murdering the old man. He later begins to experience hallucinations involving the ghost of the murdered man, and in the end, he is frightened to death by the apparition out in the desert.^[3]

Cast

Wallace Beery as Jean Scholast
Joseph J. Dowling as George Le Quintrec
Fontaine La Rue as Madame Le Quintrec
Jack Rollens as Armand Le Quintrec
Cleo Madison as Mataoka
Jim Corey as Wapita
Jamie Gray as Nola

References

^ Soister p.48
^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 281. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
^ Unseen Hands, retrieved May 2, 2023