A right little gem of a crime movie that I’ve managed to dredge up for you this week. It’s got an interesting plotline and although the cast are not massively famous they have turned out a very workmanlike movie. It’s one of those ‘play within a play’ movies.

The Brighton Strangler, made in 1945, centres around an actor called Reginald Parker who plays a character called Edward Grey in a play, written by his fiance entitled ‘The Brighton Strangler’ that in the film is finishing its run in London during World War II. The play’s run ends just before Christmas and while Parker is getting ready in his dressing room to meet his fiance who is currently out of town with her family, a German bomb falls on the theatre killing many. Numbered among the dead is Reginald Parker.

However, Parker is not dead but has suffered a massive head injury that makes him not only lose his memory but begin to believe that he is in reality Edward Grey, the murderous central character in the play that he has been starring in.

Parker travels to Brighton and there then follows a series of crimes that seem to match those of the play that Parker has been performing in.

I won’t give too much of the plot away for obvious reasons but I will say that the conclusion of the film is an action packed one and the lead up to this ending holds the attention.

I enjoyed this little gem of a movie and I hope that you do too.