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1966 British film by John Moxey From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Strangler's Web is a 1966 British second feature[1] film directed by John Moxey and starring John Stratton, Pauline Munro and Griffith Jones.[2] Part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios.
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Directed by | John Moxey |
Screenplay by | George Baxt |
Produced by | Jack Greenwood |
Starring | John Stratton Pauline Munro Griffith Jones |
Edited by | Derek Holding |
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Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated |
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Running time | 52 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Norma Brent is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, with her lover John Vichelski found at the scene holding the strangulation cord. Lewis Preston, his solicitor, discovers that accountant Amos Colfax was planning to marry Norma and share in an inheritance. Actor Jackson Delacorte, badly disfigured in a car accident and now a recluse, confesses to the murder of Norma, who was his bigamous wife, and who had been blackmailing him. But Delacorte is not guilty. The real murderer confesses.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This ragbag of clichés is directed and acted with enough competence to emerge, by British programme filler standards, as a reasonably entertaining thriller. Griffith Jones looks rather splendid as the faded and disfigured matinee idol."[3]