Hands of Destiny is a 1954 British second feature ('B')[1] drama-documentary film directed by Tony Young and starring Josef Ranald, Terence Alexander and Hilda Fenemore.
Between these episodes, Ranald's manager describes what the hand markings of Bob Hope, Joan Crawford, Olivia de Havilland, Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering reveal about their owners.
The subject itself is interesting; but sequences such as the parade of the hands of thirteen Nazi war leaders become very boring, and the two stories are unconvincing and inconclusive.
"[6] Kine Weekly wrote: "Unusual oftering introducing Josef Ranald, the celebrated palmist.
The "star," Josef Ranald, obviously has quite a reputation as a mind reader, and two dramatic cameos illustrate his skill af solving human problems merely by looking at the palms of the persons concerned, but neither convinces.