Mano - Manos

[CB]

Came accross this the other day. Back in 1966 a really bad B-Grade
movie called "Manos, the Hands of Fate". The poster came with the
blurb "A cult of wierd horrible people who gather beautiful women only
to deface them with a burning hand" (see link for poster):
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I was wondering if Shooter had seen this in creating Mano see link:
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or was it just a really strange coincidence. The film was released in
November 1966, Mano's first appearence was in January 1967.

CB

[David Goldfarb]

Post by CB
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ManoFatalFive.jpg
or was it just a really strange coincidence. The film was released in
November 1966, Mano's first appearence was in January 1967.

More likely he was influenced by his high school Spanish classes:
"Mano" is Spanish for "hand". (Derived from Latin "manus", whence
that "Manos".) Shooter used Spanish elsewhere, too.

[Robert Carnegie]

Came accross this the other day.  Back in 1966 a really bad B-Grade
movie called "Manos, the Hands of Fate".  The poster came with the
blurb "A cult of wierd horrible people who gather beautiful women only
to deface them with a burning hand" (see link for poster):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Manosposter.jpg
I was wondering if Shooter had seen this in creating Mano see link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ManoFatalFive.jpg
or was it just a really strange coincidence.  The film was released in
November 1966, Mano's first appearence was in January 1967.

Reading further in Wikipedia, that film doesn't seem likely to be a
huge hit - except as apparently unintended comedy. And I'm not clear
where the hand thing actually fits in. *shrug*

Are there precedents for a character with disintegrating touch, now?
The Horta in Star Trek presumably was later?

[Carl Fink]

On 2008-02-01, Robert Carnegie <***@excite.com> wrote:

[Manos: Hand of Fate]

Post by Robert Carnegie
Reading further in Wikipedia, that film doesn't seem likely to be a
huge hit - except as apparently unintended comedy. And I'm not clear
where the hand thing actually fits in. *shrug*

The villain-priest-guy wore a robe with a huge hand on it.