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John Loder, June Duprez, Miles Mander, Rose Hobart, Gilbert Emery ... see more see more... , Rex Evans , Matthew Boulton , Olaf Hytten , Lydia Bilbrook , Ian Wolfe , Michael St. Angel

John Loder plays a prominent London actor, lately starring in a play about a maniacal strangler. When the theatre is bombed by the Nazis, Loder suffers a head injury. Thereafter, he cannot separate fa... read more read more...ct from fiction, and periodically becomes the strangler that he is playing on stage. Loder's lady love June Duprez puts her own life on the line in attempting to save Loder from himself. The Brighton Strangler benefits from its brisk 67-minute running time, which allows the story to unfold without undue padding or muddled psychological overtones. Interestingly, John Loder's character is triggered into becoming a murderer whenever someone inadvertently recites one of the lines from his play--a dramatic device later utilized to fuller effect in Richard Condon's The Manchurian Candidate. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Directed by: Max Nosseck

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Dennis Schwartz
April 8, 2003
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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March 25, 2006
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