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Mãos Sangrentas (original title)
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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, Sadi Cabral, Carlos Cotrim, Jackson de Souza, Manoel Pera, Tônia Carrero, Heloísa Helena, Lizete Barros, Oswaldo Louzada, José Policena, Ramiro Magalhães, Claudiano Filho, Gilberto Martinho, Aurélio Teixeira, Antonia Marzullo, Lídia Mattos, João Zacarias, Allan Lima, Arnaldo Montel, Milton Marcos
Writers: Pedro Juan Vignale (Screenplay), Carlos Hugo Christensen (Screenplay)
Cinematographer: Mario Pagés
Editor: José Cañizares
Sound Designer: Sergio Alvarez
Composer: Abigail Moura, Alexandre Gnatalli
Direction team: Ismar Porto (Assistant Director), Ary Fernandes (Assistant Director), Roberto Farias (Assistant Director), Darcy Evangelista (Assistant Director)
Producers: Carlos Hugo Christensen, Gregorio Walerstein, Roberto Acacio
Production: Maristela Filmes, Artistas Associados Filmes
