The Brighton Strangler

The Brighton Strangler

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  • Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
  • Release Date: 1945-05-10
  • Runtime: 67 minutes
  • : 5.9
  • Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
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5.9/10
5.9
From 11 Ratings

Description

After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.

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  • CinemaSerf

    6
    By CinemaSerf
    This is a rather better effort than I'm used to from John Loder. He's a successful actor who has wowed the audiences with his eponymous portrayal for 300 nights but has now had enough. Planning to head to the seaside for a break with his fiancée "April" (June Duprez) they get caught up in the blitz and next thing he has quite a bandage on his head. Meantime, people start turning up dead, strangled, and he begins to wonder if there isn't something of the "Jekyll" and "Hyde" to his post bump-on-the-head character? There's quite a fun dynamic between the two and a few familiar faces pop up now and again to shore up their leading roles and bring a bit of Transatlantic box-office (Michael St. Angel) to this cheap and cheerful, but perfectly watchable and sometimes quite creepily produced, wartime film noir that has an entertaining twist in it's tail at the end, too.

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