Strangler's Web is a 1966 British second feature film directed by John Moxey and starring John Stratton, Pauline Munro and Griffith Jones. It was written by George Baxt, and is part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios.
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Plot
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
John Stratton as Lewis Preston
Pauline Munro as Melanie
Griffith Jones as Jackson Delacorte
Gerald Harper as Inspector Murray
Maurice Hedley as Amos Colfax
Michael Balfour as John Vichelski
Pauline Boty as Nell Pretty
Patricia Burke as Norma Brent
Tony Wall as Constable Huntly
Barry Jackson as Morton Bray
Marianne Stone as Alicia Preston
Patti Dalton as Elsie Lovett
Gary Hope as Michael Olsen
Rosamund Greenwood as Miss Pitts
Critical reception
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."