在这部The Warning Hand犯罪/剧情/奇幻片中,
Jack Wayne, a dissolute young fellow, staggers into his home one evening in a state of intoxication, to find his father on his death-bed. Before the aged man dies he warns Jack to beware of the hand of evil, and points to a shrouded painting on the wall depicting a jeweled hand holding a sword by a chain. Jack is dazed at the sight of the painting and hurries from the room. After the death of his father young Wayne loses heavily at cards and one evening is about to appropriate some funds from his mother's private safe when he is startled to see the shroud fade from the painting and the hand of evil points directly at him. Frightened, he watches the shroud return into place, then staggers from the room in a panic of fear. Several months afterward he calls one evening upon his sweetheart, Grace, only to discover his rival. Morrell, seated close beside her, in a frenzy of jealous rage Wayne whips out a gun and is about to murder Morrell when suddenly a ghostly hand appears in the air ...