Grip of the Strangler (1958)

Directors

Robert Day

Cast

Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan, Tim Turner, Vera Day, Anthony Dawson, Diane Aubrey, Dorothy Gordon, Peggy Ann Clifford, Desmond Roberts

The story

In 1860, Edward Styles is accused of being the notorious Haymarket Strangler, who brutally killed five women by partially strangling them with one hand before stabbing them to death. Styles, who lacks the use of one arm, is tried and executed for these crimes. As his coffin is nailed shut, an unknown onlooker slips a knife into it.

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