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Too much of everything

Sadly Over-hyped

Overrated

The acting in this movie is really good.

The Brighton Strangler does not set out to achieve anything in arduous storytelling, but rather is a cheeky tale that lives in Golden Age "B" movie heaven. Reginald Parker (John Loder) is the lead stage actor in a play called The Brighton Strangler. He has performed the play hundreds of times and has decided he wants to move on because he's played the "Strangler" character for so long. After his final show as the killer, a German blitz bombs the theater almost killing Parker. He is left with a head wound that bungles his mind, leading him to believe he actually is Edward Grey, or The Brighton Strangler. He is then doomed to "act" out his play with innocent people.While the concept is an amusing one and the imagery has some fantastic moments of long stark shadows and hands feeling the rope of a noose, John Loder's performance is just about the most lackluster acting I have ever seen. Everything about him is wooden: his expressions, his tone, and even his posture! It does, however, add to the fun of it all because he looks so silly doing it.Throughout the film there is not really an antagonist opposite of Parker. There is also no suspense drawn from other characters because each victim doesn't figure out what is happening. Parker just tells them what he is going to do. The only person who figures out that something is wrong and then acts upon it doesn't do so until about 10 minutes before the end, probably even less. There is no chase or tension throughout story.While very flawed, The Brighton Strangler is a good fun film that does not try to go beyond its identity. It's a quick easy watch at only 67 minutes. Check it out if you are a fan of old-fashioned pulpy thrillers.Also June Duprez's eyes on the poster are hilarious.

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 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 film's 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, out in the London smog and be wary of that hatted man coming towards you.........8/10

The most popular play on the West End is "The Brighton Strangler". It is the last performance for Reginald Parker as he wants a rest from being "a strangler" and to spend more time with his fiancée Dorothy Kent (Rose Hobart). She is also writing a new play for him. Parker is a gentle and kind man, but caught in a bomb blast at the theatre, he literally becomes Edward Grey, the character he played in "The Brighton Strangler". He goes to Victoria Station and meets April (June Duprez) who is going to Brighton to visit her parents for Christmas. The word "Brighton" triggers an association in his brain, so he goes there too.He then sets about recreating the play - killing first the Mayor, who he feels sent him to jail - the Mayor (Ian Wolff) doesn't know a thing about it of course. His next victim is Inspector Allison (Miles Mander). April is to meet her husband (she is secretly married but because her parents have recently lost their son in the war she doesn't want to tell them.) She asks Grey to give her an alibi by going to a concert that she is supposed to be attending. He uses the concert as an alibi for himself so he can kill the Inspector and then get back to the concert without causing suspicion. April's husband is called back to his base so April can go to the concert after all but she doesn't see Grey there.The film ends as the film began - with the final scene from the play "The Brighton Strangler". I really enjoyed this film a lot more than "A Double Life" which I found a bit dull.John Loder is good as always - I just loved him in "Non Stop New York" - he plays Reginald Parker. The beautiful June Duprez's most important film was "The Four Feathers" (1939), the technicolor showing off her dazzling beauty. She plays April. Rose Hobart was an American actress whose most famous role was as Muriel Carew in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1931) - she fitted in well with the English cast as Dorothy Kent.

John Loder plays Reginald Parker, an actor whose portrayal of a serial killer has made him the toast of London's theater district. During the height of the german blitz Parker has tirelessly played the part to sold out crowds seeking diversion from the horrors of world war 2.After nearly two years of constant work Parker is on the brink of exhaustion. When his wife and friends demand he take a break he agrees grudgingly but only after one last performance for on leave military personnel. That night Parker stays late at the theater to review some last minute additions to the script. As he reads german bombers attack London. A stray bomb strikes the theater causing the roof to collapse on the unfortunate actor. He survives but recieves a nasty blow to the head. The blow gives him partial amnesia allowing him to recall nothing save that of the part he has paractically lived for the last two years.Believing the details of the script are actual memories he comes to believe he is the Brighton Strangler. So it is off to Brighton where he begins hunting down those who resemble his victims from the play.The plot is a rather far fetched and the story sags in the middle. But John Loder's tormented transform from kindly actor to maniacal killer makes the film worth a look.