The Haunted Strangler

The Haunted Strangler
The Haunted Strangler movie poster
Directed by	Robert Day
Produced by	John Croydon Richard Gordon
Written by	John Croydon Jan Read
Starring	Boris Karloff Jean Kent Elizabeth Allan Anthony Dawson
Editing by	Peter Mayhew
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	July 3 1958(US)
Running time	118 minutes
Language	English

The Haunted Strangler (also known as Grip of the Strangler) is a 1958 British horror film directed by Robert Day. It was adapted from "Stranglehold", a story which screenwriter Jan Read had written specially for Boris Karloff, and was shot back to back with producer Richard Gordon's Fiend Without a Face, with both later being released as a double bill by MGM.

Plot

In Victorian London, Edward Styles is accused of being the notorious Haymarket Strangler, the brutal killer of five women. Twenty years after he is tried and executed for these crimes James Rankin (Karloff), a novelist and social reformer, launches an investigation to prove that Styles is innocent. His search for clues leads him first to the sleazy Judas Hole music hall, where the Strangler picked his victims from the resident can-can dancers and loose women, and then to the prison cemetery of Newgate where Styles was buried - in order to exhume his body. When the killings start again, Rankin's theory seems to be vindicated. However his growing obsession with the case signals a most unwelcome revelation as to the true identity of the murderer.

See also

• Boris Karloff filmography

References

• McDonagh, Maitland. "In Praise of Karloff, The Uncanny". The Haunted Strangler by Robert Day. The Criterion Collection. http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=367&eid=520&section=essay. Retrieved 2008-03-10. 

External links

• The Haunted Strangler at the Internet Movie Database
• The Haunted Strangler at AllRovi
• The Haunted Strangler at Rotten Tomatoes
• The Haunted Strangler at the TCM Movie Database