{"id":38618,"date":"2025-03-25T16:52:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T20:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38618"},"modified":"2025-03-25T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T20:52:34","slug":"hand-of-death-1962-starring-john-agar-paula-raymond-and-steve-dunne-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38618","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hand of Death&#8221; (1962) starring John Agar, Paula Raymond and Steve Dunne \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z032525zview_handsofdeath.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"759\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Hand of Death <\/i>(1962)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Gene Nelson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Eugene Ling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>John Agar, Paula Raymond<\/strong><strong>, Stephen Dunne, Roy Gordon, John A. Alonzo, Butch Patrick, Norman Burton, Fred Krone, Jack Donner <\/strong>and <strong>Joe Besser.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> No one dared come too close!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alex Marsh (Agar) thinks he&#8217;s on the verge of a breakthrough.\u00a0 Marsh has been working on the creation of a nerve gas for the military.\u00a0 After long hours in the lab, Marsh spills some and infects himself.\u00a0 Marsh slowly turns into a monster whose very touch kills!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joe Besser, best known as one of the <em>Three Stooges<\/em>, has a small role.\u00a0 Butch Patrick, best known for his role on <em>The Munster<\/em>s, appears in a small role as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Comic Book fans may note the resemblance between the movie&#8217;s monster and The Thing&#8217;s early appearances in <em>Fantastic Four<\/em> comics.\u00a0 Although the movie monster was colored black, on the posters and lobby cards he was orange (same as the Thing).\u00a0 The monster also disguised itself using a hat and trenchcoat (as did the Thing in comics).\u00a0 Coincidence?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>Hand of Death <\/i>(1962) <\/em><\/strong>rates 2 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z032525zview_handsofdeath2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hand of Death (1962) Director: Gene Nelson Screenplay: Eugene Ling Stars: John Agar, Paula Raymond, Stephen Dunne, Roy Gordon, John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38619,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38618\/revisions\/38619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}