The Beast with Five Fingers (MOD) "1960's"

The Beast with Five Fingers (MOD) "1960's"On a dark night, in an isolated Italian villa, the last will and testament of a handicapped former concert pianist is read. From another room comes the sound of a piano being played in the unmistakable style of the dead man the start of a reign of terror by The Beast with Five Fingers. Terrified, the heirs disinter the dead man and discover his long paralyzed left hand has been severed and is missing. Now, one by one the people in the villa die, and

Add to this his daughter Cady's pursuit of the truth regarding her mother's killer

button-down captain (The Man from U

and sail the prairie with a landlocked Navy officer (Lorne Greene)

a school headmaster

a mother emotionally shattered by the murder of her teenage daughter allows her daughter's best friend to move into her home

) to soon-to-be TV superstar Chad Everett (as a psycho wannabe Vietnam War hero)

only to find a grittier

is not just an affectionate filmization of Sandy Wilson's London/Broadway stage hit but also an homage to the movie stagings of Busby Berkeley - complete with imaginative use of kaleidoscopic top shots and rows of leggy chorines

O'Shea (Scalia)

encountering famous landmarks along the way and leaving chaos in their wake

both specialties of the Warner studio

when relocated to a small California town under the Federal Witness Protection Program