Boris Karloff
James Rankin
Jean Kent
Cora Seth
Elizabeth Allan
Barbara Rankin
Anthony Dawson
Supt. Burk
Vera Day
Pearl
Tim Turner
Dr. Kenneth McColl
Diane Aubrey
Lily RankinMax Brimmell
Newgate Prison Turnkey
Leslie Perrins
Newgate Prison GovernorJessica Cairns
Asylum Maid
Dorothy Gordon
Hannah
Desmond Roberts
Dr. JohnsonRoy Russell
Medical SuperintendentDerek Birch
Guyse Hospital SuperintendentPeggy Ann Clifford
Kate
John Fabian
Young BloodJoan Elvin
Can-Can GirlAudrey Sykes
Laughing Lady at Hanging (uncredited)
Marie Devereux
Show Girl (uncredited)
Status
Released
Original Language
en
Keywords
- #obsession
- #cemetery
- #murder
- #serial killer
- #series of murders
- #hanging
- #chorus girl
- #knitting
Reviews
@John Chardabout 10 years ago
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 palpab