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The Strangler (1964)

Director: Burt Topper

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From Time Out Film Guide

Having played a chubby mother's boy in Robert Aldrich's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Victor Buono brought a certain class to this compelling tawdry exploiter as an obese mother-fixated lab technician who murders nurses. Pre-dating The Boston Strangler by a few years, this is a very different take from that offered by Tony Curtis in Richard Fleischer's 1968 movie.

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Cast & crew

Director: Burt Topper

Producer: Samuel Bischoff, David Diamond

Cast: Victor Buono, David McLean, Ellen Corby, Jeanne Bates, Wally Campo, James Sikking full cast

Genre(s): Thrillers

Duration: 89 mins


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