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THE HAUNTED STRANGLER (1958). Wildly uneven convoluted film dealing with a novelist/social reformer trying to clear the name of a man hung for murders twenty years previously and going to overly excessive means to do so. While the opening is good; the execution is treated as if it were a public spectacle and some extreme tawdriness throughout; lots of cleavage including a closeup of a woman's dress soaked in champagne and being referred to as a "bitch:, the story just fails to hold our interest, even with Boris Karloff in the lead. He is incredibly hammy with a case of self flagellation even Lon Chaney Jr in THE INNER SANCTUM films couldn't pull off. More bland support is offered by Elizabeth Allen, known for MARK OF THE VAMPIRE as his whiny wife. For Karloff completeists and not much more. **
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