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The Haunted Strangler. Nineteenth-century English author James Rankin (Boris Karloff) believes that the wrong man was hanged twenty years earlier for a series of murders, but his investigations lead him to a horrible and, for him, gruesomely inescapable secret. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 3 days to finish once started.
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Grip of the Strangler. Directed by. Robert Day. United Kingdom, United States, 1958. Crime, Horror. 79. Synopsis. 19th-century English author James Rankin (Boris Karloff) believes that the wrong man was hanged twenty years earlier for a series of murders, but his investigations lead him to a horrible, and, for him, gruesomely inescapable secret.
Jun 17, 1998 · Filmed in '58, 'The Haunted Strangler' is a somewhat entertaining English horror/murder mystery from '58 starring the legendary Boris Karloff. Plot: Set in London, England circa 1860, accomplished writer James Rankin (Boris Karloff) develops an obsessive interest in a twenty year old series of can-can girl killings.
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Directed by Robert Day • 1958 • United Kingdom. Starring Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan. Nineteenth-century English author James Rankin (Boris Karloff) believes that the wrong man was hanged twenty years earlier for a series of murders, but his investigations lead him to a horrible and, for him, gruesomely inescapable secret.
There's a bit of Oedipus Rex in The Haunted Strangler, though it's not readily apparent at first. Boris Karloff plays 19th-century novelist James Rankin, who becomes obsessed with the long-closed case of the Haymarket Strangler. Twenty years earlier, a man named Styles (Michael Atkinson) was executed for the Strangler's crimes, but was he guilty?
Nov 16, 2010 · The Haunted Strangler is much more of an overt horror film. Clearly, the scriptwriters were thinking of the Jack the Ripper killings and came up with a story about a split personality and what for a time looks like a possession story, all wound into a copy of the Ripper killings.
