The Crawling Hand (1963)

Directors

Herbert L. Strock

Cast

Peter Breck, Kent Taylor, Rod Lauren, Alan Hale Jr.

The story

An astronaut, out of oxygen and coming in for a crash landing, somehow manages to re-establish radio contact and tell ground control to activate the ship self-destruction mechanism. After wondering why the astronaut couldn't do it himself, ground control pushes the red button, causing the ship to explode at ; scientists Steve Curan, Max Weitzberg, and their assistant Donna discover that the late astronaut was infected by an alien lifeform. Meanwhile, Paul Lawrence, a science student and his girlfriend Marta Farnstrom find a severed human arm on a beach in California.

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