John Loder

June Duprez

Michael St. Angel

Miles Mander

Rose Hobart

Gilbert Emery

Rex Evans

Matthew Boulton

Olaf Hytten

Lydia Bilbrook

Ian Wolfe

Milton Owen

Norman Ainsley

George Atkinson

Frank Baker

Frank Benson

Lillian Bronson

George Broughton

Tom Burton

Wheaton Chambers

Robin Sanders Clark

Harry Clay

Robert Cory

Alec Craig

Victor Cutler

Herbert Evans

Ellen George Ferguson

Sherry Hall

Alec Harford

Joy Harington

Lilyan Irene

Colin Kenny

Connie Leon

Stanley Mann

Audrey Manners

Frank Mayo

Tom McGuire

Mary McLeod

Gavin Muir

Joseph North

Robert R. Stephenson

Doris Stone

Gus Taillon

David Thursby

Alan Ward

Eric Wilton

Steve Winston

Florence Wix

Les Millbrook

Leigh Harline

Max Nosseck

J. Roy Hunt

Herman Schlom

Sid Rogell

Hugh Gray

Arnold Lipp

Vernon L. Walker

Harley Miller

Renié

Darrell Silvera

Ralph Berger

Albert S. D'Agostino

Lloyd Richards

Roy Meadows

Lawrence Morton

Roy Webb

C. Bakaleinikoff

Harold Palmer

Frank Tours

James G. Stewart

Gil Grau

Franz Waxman

Crime

Drama

Romance

The Brighton Strangler

RKO Radio Pictures

United States of America

You shall not see in the New year.  

During WW II as one of the Luftwafte air raids hits London, Reginald Parker, a successful actor, is knocked out and heavily concussed. Upon awaking he believes himself to be Edward Grey, the notorious Brighton Strangler he has been portraying on the stage!

Clocking in at just 67 minutes, The Brighton Strangler just about has enough time to get in and do it's job excellently. 

Something of an under seen gem, it's a film that has enough creepy menace about it to reward the black and white thriller film fan. Boasting excellent sets, some very neat camera work from director Max Nosseck, and a fabulous lead performance from John Loder, I personally feel that it deserves to be seen by more people. Typically it's a picture that rarely gets aired on British TV, and when it does it's sadly tucked away on BBC 2 at some ungodly hour in the AM.

Until films like this get decent exposure from our TV schedulers then they are going to remain criminally under seen. So keep your eyes out for this one, the formula may now be seen as old hat, but transport yourself back to 1945, get out in the London smog and be wary of that hatted man coming towards you... 8/10

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.

English

The Brighton Strangler (1945) Clip