Bloody Hands
1955, Portuguese. Directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen.
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.).
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Portuguese
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- Released
- 5 August 1955
- Original title
- Mãos Sangrentas
- Country
- Argentina, Brazil
- Written by
- Pedro Juan Vignale, Carlos Hugo Christensen
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Bloody Hands runs 82 minutes (1h 22m).
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Bloody Hands isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 5 August 1955. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed Bloody Hands?
Bloody Hands (1955) was directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen and stars Arturo de Córdova, Sadi Cabral, Carlos Cotrim.