# The Stranger's Hand > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Stranger's_Hand > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Stranger's_Hand.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger's_Hand > Source revision: 1354964850 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|1954 film}} {{about||the album by Jerry Goodman, Steve Smith, Howard Levy, and Oteil Burbridge|The Stranger's Hand (album)}} {{Use British English|date=May 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}} {{Infobox film | name = The Stranger's Hand | image = The Stranger's Hand.jpg | caption = | director = [Mario Soldati](/source/Mario_Soldati) | producer = [Angelo Rizzoli](/source/Angelo_Rizzoli)
[Graham Greene](/source/Graham_Greene)
Peter Moore
[John Stafford](/source/John_Stafford_(producer)) | writer = [Giorgio Bassani](/source/Giorgio_Bassani)
[Guy Elmes](/source/Guy_Elmes) |based_on = ''The Stranger's Hand'' by [Graham Greene](/source/Graham_Greene) | starring = [Trevor Howard](/source/Trevor_Howard)
[Alida Valli](/source/Alida_Valli)
[Richard Basehart](/source/Richard_Basehart) | music = [Nino Rota](/source/Nino_Rota)
[Alessandro Cicognini](/source/Alessandro_Cicognini) | cinematography = [Enzo Serafin](/source/Enzo_Serafin) | editing = Tom Simpson
Leslie Hogdson
[Leo Catozzo](/source/Leo_Catozzo) | studio = Milo Film
Rizzoli Film
Independent Film Producers | distributor = [British Lion Films](/source/British_Lion_Films) | released = {{Film date|1954|01|20|df=yes}} | runtime = 85 minutes |budget=£164,200Chapman, 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. | country = Italy
United Kingdom | language = English }} '''''The Stranger's Hand''''' ({{langx|it|La mano dello straniero}}) is a 1954 British-Italian [thriller](/source/Thriller_film) [drama film](/source/drama_film) directed by [Mario Soldati](/source/Mario_Soldati) and starring [Trevor Howard](/source/Trevor_Howard), [Alida Valli](/source/Alida_Valli) and [Richard Basehart](/source/Richard_Basehart). An [international co-production](/source/international_co-production), it is based on the draft novel with the same name written by [Graham Greene](/source/Graham_Greene).{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|date=1991 |publisher=Gremese, 1991|isbn=8876055487}} The plot follows the son of a British [MI5](/source/MI5) agent kidnapped in [Venice](/source/Venice) by agents of [Yugoslavia](/source/Yugoslavia) as he searches for his father. The first two chapters of ''The Stranger's Hand'' had been entered by Greene anonymously under a pseudonym to a competition in the ''[New Statesman](/source/New_Statesman)'' to write a book in the style of Graham Greene – a competition in which Greene was amused to win second prize. Soldati had seen the chapters and persuaded Greene to complete the novella to make the basis for a film. Greene expanded it to 30 pages of a "film story", on which [Giorgio Bassani](/source/Giorgio_Bassani) and [Guy Elmes](/source/Guy_Elmes) completed the screenplay.[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian) [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/dec/24/fiction.film ] ==Cast== * [Trevor Howard](/source/Trevor_Howard) as Major Roger Court * [Alida Valli](/source/Alida_Valli) as Roberta Gleukovitch * [Richard Basehart](/source/Richard_Basehart) as Joe Hamstringer * [Richard O'Sullivan](/source/Richard_O'Sullivan) as Roger Court * [Eduardo Ciannelli](/source/Eduardo_Ciannelli) as Dr. Vivaldi * [Arnoldo Foà](/source/Arnoldo_Fo%C3%A0) as Commissioner * [Stephen Murray](/source/Stephen_Murray_(actor)) as British Consul in Venice * [Guido Celano](/source/Guido_Celano) as Chief Constable * [Nerio Bernardi](/source/Nerio_Bernardi) as Vincenzo * Giorgio Costantini as Pescovitch * Angelo Cecchelin as Luza * Nino Vechina as First Killer * Armando Papette as Second Killer * Giovanni Karuz as Third Killer * Joan Butterfield as Mrs. Harrington * Alessandro Paulon as Morgan * Remington Olmsted as Ramondo ==References== {{reflist}} ==Bibliography== * Spicer, Andrew. ''Historical Dictionary of Film Noir''. Scarecrow Press, 2010. ==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0045202}} {{Mario Soldati |state=collapsed}} {{Graham Greene|state=collapsed}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Stranger's Hand}} Category:1954 films Category:1954 thriller films Category:Films directed by Mario Soldati Category:Films scored by Nino Rota Category:Films based on works by Graham Greene Category:British thriller films Category:Films produced by Angelo Rizzoli Category:Novels by Graham Greene Category:Films shot in Venice Category:1950 British novels Category:1950 English-language novels Category:Italian thriller films Category:1954 drama films Category:Films scored by Alessandro Cicognini Category:English-language Italian films Category:1954 Italian-language films Category:British black-and-white films Category:Italian black-and-white films Category:British Lion Films films Category:1954 English-language films Category:1954 British films Category:1954 Italian films Category:English-language thriller films {{1950s-Italy-film-stub}} {{1950s-thriller-film-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [The Stranger's Hand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger's_Hand) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger's_Hand?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.