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.).
Carlos Hugo Christensen
Director
Arturo de Córdova
Adriano
Sadi Cabral
Carlos Cotrim
Jackson de Souza
Manoel Pera
Tônia Carrero
Heloísa Helena
Lizete Barros
Oswaldo Louzada
King Ivory68%
Salve Geral: Irmandade58%
Black Site60%
Brute Force73%
God Is a Bullet61%
Inside Man60%
The System71%
A Crooked Somebody63%
Bad Boys69%
Run60%
Dear Mr. Gacy59%
Blood Ties61%
Convict65%
The International62%
Violent Ends61%
Five Minutes of Heaven61%
The Parts You Lose66%
The Killer62%
Nowhere to Run65%
Suburbicon58%
