“All of a sudden, I was cold”: the 1981 movie that turned Oliver Stone into a “pariah”
Oliver Stone, already an Oscar-winning screenwriter after the success of Midnight Express in 1978, directed the 1981 horror film The Hand as a compromise with studio executives who wanted commercial entertainment rather than the serious dramatic films Stone genuinely wished to make. The film, starring Michael Caine as a comic book artist whose severed hand…