Strangler's Web

Strangler's Web
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn Moxey
Screenplay byGeorge Baxt
Produced byJack Greenwood
StarringJohn Stratton
Pauline Munro
Griffith Jones
Edited byDerek Holding
Production
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Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated
Release date
  • 2 September 1966 (1966-09-02)
Running time
52 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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.

Plot

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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.

Cast

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Critical reception

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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]

References

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  1. ^ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (2009). The British 'B' Film. London: BFI/Bloomsbury. p. 326. ISBN 978-1-8445-7319-6.
  2. ^ "Strangler's Web". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  3. ^ "Strangler's Web". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 33 (384): 143. 1 January 1966. ProQuest 1305837452 – via ProQuest.
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