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The Brighton Strangler

The Brighton Strangler

5.9/ 10

TMDB Rating

12

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1945

Release Year

67 min

Runtime

Crime
Drama
Thriller

Overview

After suffering a head injury during the London Blitz, theatre actor John Loder comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.

Keywords

new year's eve
world war ii
head injury
memory loss
brighton, england
reality vs fiction
strangler
life imitates art
assumed identity
nightmare becomes reality
stage performance
london blitz
dissociative identity disorder
amnesiac
play a role
theatre actor

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Reviews(2)

7.0avg rating
John Chard

John Chard

March 18, 2019

8
8/10

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!

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

December 10, 2024

6
6/10

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

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