The Beast with Five Fingers is a 1946 American mystery horror film directed by Robert Florey from a screenplay by Curt Siodmak, based on the 1919 short story of the same name by W. F. Harvey.

The film stars Robert Alda, Victor Francen, Andrea King, and Peter Lorre.

Francis Ingram is a noted pianist who lives in a large manor house in turn-of-the-century Italy.

He has retreated to the manor house for the past few years, where he lives with his nurse, Julie Holden; his secretary and astrologist Hilary Cummins; a friend, Bruce Conrad; and his sister's son, Donald Arlington.

Commissario Ovidio Castanio of the local police investigates the death, and finds no sign of foul play.

The Arlingtons assume they will get everything, and gloat to Cummins that they plan to have his cherished books shipped off and sold.

Duprex tells the Arlingtons that Ingram wrote an older will which gave everything to Donald, and offers to help overturn the new will in favor of the old one in exchange for a third of the estate.

Holden realizes that Cummins is the killer, having acted to safeguard his books, but his conscience is driving him mad, making him insist that the hand did it all.

[citation needed] Graham Baker was reported as working on a script for Warner Bros in 1945.

[1] Robert Florey was assigned to direct with Andrea King and Paul Henreid to star.

[4] The piece much played throughout the film is a slightly modified version of Brahms' transcription for left hand of the chaconne from Johann Sebastian Bach's Violin Partita in D minor, performed by Warner Bros. pianist Victor Aller.