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The Brighton Strangler(1945)

6.2(13)
1h 7m
1945-05-10

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 eveworld war iihead injurymemory lossbrighton, 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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Top Cast

John Loder
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Reginald Parker / Edward Grey
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April Manby Carson
Michael St. Angel
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Lieutenant Bob Carson
Miles Mander
Miles Mander
Chief Inspector W.R. Allison
Rose Hobart
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Dorothy Kent
Gilbert Emery
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Dr. Manby
Rex Evans
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Leslie Shelton
Matthew Boulton
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Inspector Graham
Olaf Hytten
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Banks
Lydia Bilbrook
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Mrs. Manby
Ian Wolfe
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Lord Mayor Herman Brandon R. Clive
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Milton Owen
Inspector (Uncredited)
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Norman Ainsley
First Passenger (Uncredited)
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George Atkinson
Bellboy (Uncredited)
Frank Baker
Frank Baker
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