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Blood and Brains on a Budget

The Haunted Strangler

1h 18m

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.

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