The Clutching Hand

Genre: Serials

Format: 16mm

Sound: Sound

Credits: From a novel by Arthur B. Reeves; stunts by Yakima Canutt

Description: 15 smashing episodes. 3 reels in the first episode, 2 reels in each of the others. A Craig Kennedy story from a novel by Arthur B. Reeves. Terrifying stunts by the screen's greatest stuntster, Yakima Canutt, the death-defying dare-devil of the studios. Kenneth Strickfaden, the electrical wizard of the age, brings the greatest spectacles of science to the screen to thrill and amaze you. As Craig Kennedy matches his super-science against the master mind of crime, "The Clutching Hand." Thrill to the magic of Craig Kennedy's laboratory, the birthplace of the scientific marvels that G-Men use to track down the most desperate criminals of the nation. Episodes: 1—Who Is the Clutching Hand?; 2—Shadow; 3—House of Mystery; 4—The Phantom Car; 5—The Double Trap; 6—Steps of Doom; 7—The Invisible Enemy; 8—A Cry in the Night; 9—Evil Eyes; 10—A Desperate Chance; 11—The Ship of Peril; 12—Hidden Danger; 13—The Mystic Menace; 14—The Silent Spectre; 15—The Lone Hand.

Metadata Source:Ideal Pictures Corporation Motion Picture Catalog, 1940-1941