Now, before we get into the various whats and wheres of how you can watch 'The Moving Finger' right now, here are some notable highlights about the Moyer Productions drama flick. The Moving Finger starring Lionel Stander, Barry Newman, Moondog, Zelda R. Suplee has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 21 min. The release date of the movie is December 1st, 1963.
Need a quick rundown of the movie? Here's the plot: "A rare beatnik artifact of the early 1960s, one of only a few such films made before the hippies took over Hollywood. Low budget and in b&w, it's set in Greenwich Village, with what seems like a mostly improvised script. It begins as a late film noir crime tale involving a bank robbery where only one of a group of thieves escapes with his life, as well as $90,000 in loot. Injured and on the run, he hides in a local tour bus and is soon taken in by a group of bohemians who shoot him full of morphine to ease his pain and let him sleep it off on a mattress. Mason is the head beatnik. There's also the owner of both an upstairs coffeehouse and garret, where these beatniks hang out. They, in turn, bring the tourist trade in. Although the robbery is supposed to be the main focus of the plot, it quickly turns into more of a character study featuring these rebellious bon vivants and their odd lifestyle..."
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'The Moving Finger' Release Dates
Watch in Movie Theaters on December 1st, 1963
