Watch The Moving Finger (1963) Online

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... Read More

Watch The Moving Finger online. Featuring Lionel Stander and Barry Newman, The Moving Finger is classified as Drama genre movie with an average rating across the web of 0. It is available for streaming online in the UK on 1 services such as Amazon Video. The movie was filmed in United States of America and was released on 1963. The Moving Finger was directed by . Read Less