The Hand

Joining writer-director Oliver Stone’s opening credit sequence, using Big Bear lake as Vermont, Michael Caine is introduced as comic strip artist Jonathan Lansdale, Mara Hobel his daughter, Andrea Marcovicci his wife, in The Hand, 1981, from a novel by Marc Brandel.

Fairly famous comic strip artist Jonathan Lansdale (Michael Caine), struggling after losing his drawing hand in an accident, has taken a job at a small California college, where he’s received by new colleague Brian (Bruce McGill) and meets his first students, in particular Annie McEnroe, in writer-director Oliver Stone’s The Hand 1981.

Presumably meaning well as he meets with his agent (Rosemary Murphy) and David (Charles Fleischer), who’s begun taking over for him, comic strip artist Jonathan (Michael Caine), who lost his hand in a car wreck, gets riled about his main character, leading to writer-director Oliver Stone’s grisly cameo, in The Hand 1981.

Back home in Vermont struggling to adjust to the loss of his hand, comic book artist Jonathan Lansdale (Michael Caine) visits his studio, then goes back to the scene of the accident to search, then meets with his agent (Rosemary Murphy), as things get weirder, in writer-director Oliver Stone's horror hybrid The Hand 1981.