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Director:
Burt Topper
Writer:
Bill S. Ballinger (writer)
Release Date:
1 April 1964 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror more
Tagline:
Victor Buono as the Strangler is HERE! more
Plot:
Leo Kroll, a lab technician in a large unnamed city, is responsible for the strangulation murders of several young nurses... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Pure Exploitation more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Victor Buono ... Leo Kroll
David McLean ... Lt. Frank Benson
Diane Sayer ... Barbara Wells
Davey Davison ... Tally Raymond
Baynes Barron ... Sgt. Mack Clyde
Ellen Corby ... Mrs. Kroll
Michael Ryan ... Detective Mel Posner
Russ Bender ... Dr. Clarence Sanford
Jeanne Bates ... Clara Thomas, the Nurse
Wally Campo ... Eggerton
Mimi Dillard ... Thelma
Byron Morrow ... Dr. Morton
John Yates ... Intern
James Sikking ... Artist
Robert Cranford ... Jack Rosten
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Boston Strangler (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
89 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | USA:Unrated

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Continuity: When the police are on the way to the first murder shown in the movie, they are driving in a 1950s boxy sedan. However, when the police arrive, they are in an early-1960s era sedan. more

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1 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Pure Exploitation, 7 January 2003
Author: Brian Washington (Sargebri@att.net) from Los Angeles, California

I watched this film for the first time when I was about 8 years old and I thought it was rather creepy. I'm now 36 and I see this film for what it is, pure exploitation. The only ones that turn in credible performance is Victor Buono as Leo Kroll the strangler and Helen Corby as Leo's harpy of a mother. All the rest of the actors in this flick are a bunch of amatures and this was probably the only jobs they could get at the time. But the thing that I think makes this is an exploitation pic is that the victims, for the most part, are all in various stages of undress just before they are murdered, especially the third victim who is killed in the shower ("Psycho" rip off anyone). This is quite interesting because of the fact that this was filmed in 1964, four years before the MPAA ratings were initiated and this surely would have gotten a PG-13 by today's standards. Other than the performances, this is not a bad flick considering the exploitive nature of it.

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