Grip of the Strangler

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Grip of the Strangler (1958)

NR 05/11/1958 (US) Horror, Crime, Mystery, Thriller 1h 18m

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KING OF THE MONSTERS! KARLOFF IN HIS NEW HORROR HIT!

Overview

A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.

Robert Day

Director
John Croydon

Writer
Jan Read

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Top Billed Cast

Boris Karloff

James Rankin
Jean Kent

Cora Seth
Elizabeth Allan

Barbara Rankin
Anthony Dawson

Supt. Burk
Vera Day

Pearl
Tim Turner

Dr. Kenneth McColl
Diane Aubrey

Lily Rankin
Max Brimmell

Newgate Prison Turnkey
Leslie Perrins

Newgate Prison Governor
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A review by John Chard

70%

Written by John Chard on October 30, 2015

The Haymarket Strangler Returns!

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 ac... read the rest.

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