Grip of the Strangler
KING OF THE MONSTERS! KARLOFF IN HIS NEW HORROR HIT!
1958 | 78m | English
Popularity: 0.3 (history)
| Director: | Robert Day |
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| Writer: | John Croydon, Jan Read |
| Staring: |
| A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler. | |
| Release Date: | May 11, 1958 |
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| Director: | Robert Day |
| Writer: | John Croydon, Jan Read |
| Genres: | Horror, Crime, Mystery, Thriller |
| Keywords | cemetery, obsession, murder, serial killer, series of murders, hanging, chorus girl, knitting |
| Production Companies | Amalgamated Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 (Update) Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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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 |
| Diane Aubrey | Lily Rankin |
| Max Brimmell | Newgate Prison Turnkey |
| Leslie Perrins | Newgate Prison Governor |
| Jessica Cairns | Asylum Maid |
| Dorothy Gordon | Hannah |
| Desmond Roberts | Dr. Johnson |
| Roy Russell | Medical Superintendent |
| Derek Birch | Guyse Hospital Superintendent |
| Peggy Ann Clifford | Kate |
| John Fabian | Young Blood |
| Joan Elvin | Can-Can Girl |
| Audrey Sykes | Laughing Lady at Hanging (uncredited) |
| Marie Devereux | Show Girl (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Robert Day | Director |
| Douglas Hickox | Assistant Director |
| John Croydon | Writer |
| Jan Read | Writer, Original Story |
| Peter Mayhew | Editor |
| Buxton Orr | Original Music Composer |
| Lionel Banes | Director of Photography |
| Barbara Barnard | Hairstylist |
| Jim Hydes | Makeup Artist |
| Ronald Kinnoch | Production Manager |
| John Elphick | Set Designer |
| Les Bowie | Special Effects |
| Anna Duse | Costume Supervisor |
| Leo Rogers | Camera Operator |
| Terry Poulton | Sound Editor |
| Hazel Swift | Script Supervisor |
| Frederic Lewis | Conductor |
| H.C. Pearson | Sound Recordist |
| Name | Title |
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| John Croydon | Producer |
| Richard Gordon | Producer |
| Richard Gordon | Executive Producer |
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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 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