Clutching Hand (1936)
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The second of three serials produced by the Weiss Bros. for low-budget Stage and Screen Productions, The Clutching Hand brought back that eminent detective Craig Kennedy, who had first appeared in Pearl White's The Exploits of Elaine back in 1915. Now played by the veteran Jack Mulhall, another… More The second of three serials produced by the Weiss Bros. for low-budget Stage and Screen Productions, The Clutching Hand brought back that eminent detective Craig Kennedy, who had first appeared in Pearl White's The Exploits of Elaine back in 1915. Now played by the veteran Jack Mulhall, another holdover from the early silent era, Kennedy is hired to solve the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Paul Gironda, whose formula for the manufacture of synthetic gold is coveted by a mysterious cloaked villain known only as The Clutching Hand. Along with Dr. Gironda's nubile daughter, Verna (Marion Shilling), and young newspaper reporter Walter Jameson (Rex Lease), Kennedy is aided or opposed in his quest by an impressive array of unemployed former silent screen "names" that include William Farnum, Reed Howes, Mae Busch, Bryant Washburn, Franklyn Farnum, and Snub Pollard, not to mention newcomers like Charles Locher (later known as Jon Hall) and Tom Mix's daughter, Ruth. The best made and most successful of Stage and Screen's three chapterplays (the company had promised six or seven), The Clutching Hand was also released in a 70-minute highly edited feature version. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
- Directed By
- Albert Herman
- Genres
- Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure
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Cast
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Richard Alexander
as Olaf
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Mae Busch
as Mrs. Gironda
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Knute Erickson
as Captain Hanson
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Franklin Farnum
as Nicky
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William Farnum
as George Gaunt
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Robert W. Frazer
as Dr. Gironda
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Joseph W. Girard
as Cromwell
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Gaston Glass
as Louis Bouchard
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Mahlon Hamilton
as Montgomery
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Reed Howes
as Sullivan
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Rex Lease
as Walter Jameson
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Frank Leigh
as Wickham
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Ruth Mix
as Shirley McMillan
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Milburn Morante
as Marty
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Jack Mulhall
as Craig Kennedy
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Harry "Snub" Pollard
as 'Snub'
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Marion Shilling
as Verna Gironda
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Yakima Canutt
as Number Eight
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Henry Hall
as Warden
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Jon Hall
as Hobart
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Bryant Washburn
as Denton
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Robert Walker
as Mitchell
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John Elliott
as White
- Robert Walker (II)
