Overview
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.).
Cast
Arturo de Córdova
Adriano
Sadi Cabral
Carlos Cotrim
Jackson de Souza
Manoel Pera
Tônia Carrero
Heloísa Helena
Lizete Barros
Oswaldo Louzada
José Policena
Ramiro Magalhães
Claudiano Filho
Gilberto Martinho
Aurélio Teixeira
Antonia Marzullo
Lídia Mattos
João Zacarias
Allan Lima
Arnaldo Montel
Milton Marcos
Wilton Franco
Cirilo Dacosta
Paulo Montel
Armando Camargo
Lajar Mar
Edson Vilas Boas
Milton Leal
Vicente Costa
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