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“But I mean everybody expects him to just be exactly the same when he’s playing with a busted finger, man. I mean, that’s amazing that he can even throw the darn thing. I think he’s back flying and going.”

Although finger-breaking was illegal, a wrestler became known as “Finger Man” for his habit of crushing his opponents’ digits at the beginning of each fight.

"Girra's finger man, eh?" called back Engel softly.

When Sir Anthony meets the finger man he says blandly, "We always wondered how long it would be before you turned us in."

Except for his Doulous � The Finger Man, an atmospheric thriller that appeared in 1964, Jean-Pierre Melville's work has been little seen in this country.