Top billed cast

1. 

   Boris Karloff

   James Rankin

2. 

   Jean Kent

   Cora Seth

3. 

   Elizabeth Allan

   Barbara Rankin

4. 

   Anthony Dawson

   Supt. Burk

5. 

   Vera Day

   Pearl

6. 

   Tim Turner

   Dr. Kenneth McColl

7. 

   Diane Aubrey

   Lily Rankin

8. 

   Max Brimmell

   Newgate Prison Turnkey

9. 

   Leslie Perrins

   Newgate Prison Governor

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2015-10-30

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 a...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• obsession
• cemetery
• murder
• serial killer
• series of murders
• hanging
• chorus girl
• knitting