The Monkey's Paw (1923)

Directors

Manning Haynes

The story

As described in a film magazine review for an American audience, a traveller tells a family, John White, his wife, and son, weird tales of a magical talisman, a monkey's paw, which has the power of granting its possessor three wishes, but only with hellish consequences as punishment for tampering with fate. The father falls asleep. In his dreams he acquires the paw and requests two thousand dollars.

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