Fair early B-grade 60's sci-fi / horror film. John Agar is a dedicated scientist working non-stop to invent some super weapon that will end war. Good luck. He's so busy he has no time for his devoted secretary girlfriend (who sounds like she has zero leisure time and bemoans her boyfriends absorption with his work). Anyway said scientist is working so hard he get over-exposed to what he's working on and ends up irradiated, poisoned, or polluted by it. It eventually turns him into a blackened, crusty-skinned, unintelligible monstrosity whose touch burns and kills. It ends with him terrorizing a beach town (Malibu?) and being shot dead by the cops. The whole film is only about an hour long so it doesn't wear out its welcome. The film's black-and-white photography is very nice and clear. Recommended for fans of this genre.
Review of Hand of Death
