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Title: The Haunted Strangler (1958)
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| Boris Karloff | ... | James Rankin | |
| Jean Kent | ... | Cora Seth | |
| Elizabeth Allan | ... | Barbara Rankin | |
| Anthony Dawson | ... | Supt. Burk | |
| Vera Day | ... | Pearl | |
| Tim Turner | ... | Dr. Kenneth McColl | |
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Diane Aubrey | ... | Lily Rankin |
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Max Brimmell | ... | Newgate Prison Turnkey |
| Leslie Perrins | ... | Newgate Prison Governor | |
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Jessica Cairns | ... | Asylum Maid |
| Dorothy Gordon | ... | Hannah | |
| Desmond Roberts | ... | Dr. Johnson | |
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Roy Russell | ... | Medical Superintendent |
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Derek Birch | ... | Guyse Hospital Superintendent |
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Peggy Ann Clifford | ... | Kate |
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A writer investigating the execution of a serial killer known as "The Haymarket Strangler" 20 years previously begins to suspect that the wrong man might have been hanged. However, when he picks up a scalpel used by the murderer, he finds himself possessed by the killer's spirit and begins committing similar murders. Written by Anonymous
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11 May 1958 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Walton Studios, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, UKEdit
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Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)Color:
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1.66 : 1
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This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #367. See more »Goofs
One scene shows an evidence box from the Jack the Ripper case but the Haymarket Strangler that starts the movie took place in 1860 and the rest of the movie is 20 years later(1880). The Ripper killings were in 1888, 8 years after the movie takes place. See more »Quotes
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Boris Karloff plays a man who comes to believe that a serial killer from 20 years previously was innocent of the murders for which he was hanged. The case starts to consume him, literally...
Based on the story "Stranglehold" written by Jan Read, pic unfolds as a creepy take of the Jekyll and Hyde kind. It's never overtly scary, but the atmospherics are palpable and the period flavours superb. This never resorts to cheap thrills, and unusually for the era of film making it doesn't rely on effects work for the transformation sequences - it is just Karloff acting!
Plenty of horror movie staples are adhered to, such as a hanging, a coffin opening, an awful prison and an asylum, whilst that even though there's a little filler that could have been cut from the running time, Karloff and the intriguing mystery part of the narrative marry up to the atmosphere to round out a good old classic horror yarn. 7/10