Bloody Hands

Bloody Hands — Plot

Maos Sangrentas translates to Bloody Hands in English, and that's just what this gruesome Brazilian melodrama delivers. The story begins when a gang of dangerous convicts escape from a penal colony. With the police in hot pursuit, the escapees cut a gory swath through the countryside. As his comrades are killed off one by one, the leader of the group descends into gibbering madness. In contrast to this, a subplot develops involving the least dangerous of the escapees, who murdered his wife in a peak of self-righteous rage and is now seriously in doubt about the wisdom of his deed. Principal scenes reworked in 1962 to make the film The Violent and the Damned (q.v.).

• Release date
• August 5, 1955
• Runtime
• 82 min
• Genres
• Drama, Crime, Thriller
• Director
• Carlos Hugo Christensen

Bloody Hands — Cast

Arturo de Córdova Adriano Sadi Cabral

C

Carlos Cotrim

J

Jackson de Souza

M

Manoel Pera Tônia Carrero Heloísa Helena

L

Lizete Barros