1. december 1963 blev The Moving Finger udgivet.

The Moving Finger blev instrueret af Larry Moyer.

The Moving Finger har en spilletid på 81 m.

The Moving Finger blev produceret af Larry Moyer.

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 and has 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--and $90,000 in loot. Injured and on the run, he hides in a local tour bus and is 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, and in turn bring in the tourist trade. Although the robbery is supposed to be the main focus, it quickly turns into more of a character study featuring these rebellious bon vivants and their odd lifestyle, which includes smoking and selling dope, mooching at art galleries, having long conversations about all sorts of things, and throwing a beat shindig, shot Cinema Verite-style in the director's actual apartment. Along the way, they do things like shower together at the home of an heiress and plot ways to get the bank heist money away from Mason, who's too clean-cut to be one of them, but wins viewers over with his naturally arrogant charisma. The whole thing climaxes at the Feast of San Gennaro in a typically documentary-style conclusion.

Nøglepersonerne i The Moving Finger er Anatole (Lionel Stander), Mason (Barry Newman), Self (Moondog).

The Moving Finger er bedømt Not Rated.

The Moving Finger er en Drama-film.

The Moving Finger har en seerbedømmelse på 4.4 ud af 10.