Bloody Hands

Overview

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.).

Cast

Arturo de Córdova

Adriano

Sadi Cabral

N/A

Carlos Cotrim

Jackson de Souza

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Manoel Pera

Tônia Carrero

Heloísa Helena

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Lizete Barros

Oswaldo Louzada

José Policena

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Ramiro Magalhães

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Claudiano Filho