The most popular play on the West End is "The Brighton Strangler". It is the last performance for Reginald Parker as he wants a rest from being "a strangler" and to spend more time with his fiancée Dorothy Kent (Rose Hobart). She is also writing a new play for him.
Parker is a gentle and kind man, but caught in a bomb blast at the theatre, he literally becomes Edward Grey, the character he played in "The Brighton Strangler". He goes to Victoria Station and meets April (June Duprez) who is going to Brighton to visit her parents for Christmas. The word "Brighton" triggers an association in his brain, so he goes there too.
He then sets about recreating the play - killing first the Mayor, who he feels sent him to jail - the Mayor (Ian Wolff) doesn't know a thing about it of course. His next victim is Inspector Allison (Miles Mander). April is to meet her husband (she is secretly married but because her parents have recently lost their son in the war she doesn't want to tell them.) She asks Grey to give her an alibi by going to a concert that she is supposed to be attending. He uses the concert as an alibi for himself so he can kill the Inspector and then get back to the concert without causing suspicion. April's husband is called back to his base so April can go to the concert after all but she doesn't see Grey there.
The film ends as the film began - with the final scene from the play "The Brighton Strangler". I really enjoyed this film a lot more than "A Double Life" which I found a bit dull.
John Loder is good as always - I just loved him in "Non Stop New York" - he plays Reginald Parker. The beautiful June Duprez's most important film was "The Four Feathers" (1939), the technicolor showing off her dazzling beauty. She plays April. Rose Hobart was an American actress whose most famous role was as Muriel Carew in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1931) - she fitted in well with the English cast as Dorothy Kent.
Parker is a gentle and kind man, but caught in a bomb blast at the theatre, he literally becomes Edward Grey, the character he played in "The Brighton Strangler". He goes to Victoria Station and meets April (June Duprez) who is going to Brighton to visit her parents for Christmas. The word "Brighton" triggers an association in his brain, so he goes there too.
He then sets about recreating the play - killing first the Mayor, who he feels sent him to jail - the Mayor (Ian Wolff) doesn't know a thing about it of course. His next victim is Inspector Allison (Miles Mander). April is to meet her husband (she is secretly married but because her parents have recently lost their son in the war she doesn't want to tell them.) She asks Grey to give her an alibi by going to a concert that she is supposed to be attending. He uses the concert as an alibi for himself so he can kill the Inspector and then get back to the concert without causing suspicion. April's husband is called back to his base so April can go to the concert after all but she doesn't see Grey there.
The film ends as the film began - with the final scene from the play "The Brighton Strangler". I really enjoyed this film a lot more than "A Double Life" which I found a bit dull.
John Loder is good as always - I just loved him in "Non Stop New York" - he plays Reginald Parker. The beautiful June Duprez's most important film was "The Four Feathers" (1939), the technicolor showing off her dazzling beauty. She plays April. Rose Hobart was an American actress whose most famous role was as Muriel Carew in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1931) - she fitted in well with the English cast as Dorothy Kent.