Death in the Hand is a 1948 British short mystery film directed by A. Barr-Smith, starring Esme Percy, Ernest Jay and Cecile Chevreau. It was made by the small independent company Vandyke Productions.
Plot In a seaside guest house, a nervous piano player, Cosmo Vaughan (Esme Percy), tells a tale of how he read the palms of passengers on board a train and forecast their deaths. But is Mr Vaughan quite what he appears?
Cast Esme Percy as Cosmo Vaughan Ernest Jay as MacRae Cecile Chevreau as Sylvia Mottram Carleton Hobbs as Chairman John Le Mesurier as Jack Mottram Shelagh Fraser as Penelope MacRae J. Hubert Leslie as Waiter Nuna Davey as Countrywoman Norman Shelley as Businessman Wilfrid Caithness as Rowlandson Thea Wells as Mrs Rowlandson
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