The Crawling Hand (1963)

The Crawling Hand (1963)
An astronaut returning from space runs out of oxygen, but somehow manages to stay alive for another twenty minutes. When he makes visual contact with mission control however, he's not the same person they once knew. Something has happened to him, and he begs them to press the button that will destroy the rocket before it has a chance to return to earth. The rocket is destroyed, but his severed arm falls to earth, where it's discovered by a college student who decides to take it home without reporting it to anyone, so that he can study it on his own. Unbeknownst to him however, the arm is infected with an alien life force which it acquired from being bombarded with cosmic rays. The arm knows only one thing. It must kill. Will Paul and the scientists be able to stop the crawling hand in time? Will Marta ever remember her lines? Will the malt shop owner ever get a real name? Let's watch and see...