The Strangler (1971)
L'Étrangleur
He can sense your despair...
Émile targets women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple victims fall to his suffocating white scarf, an inspector resorts to unorthodox methods to get him with the assistance of a potential victim.
- Date of release
- 1971-09-24
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (29)
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Crime, Horror, Thriller
- Director
- Paul Vecchiali
Casting
- Jacques Perrin — Émile
- Julien Guiomar — Inspector Simon Dangret
- Eva Simonet — Anna Carré
- Paul Barge — Le Chacal
- Jacqueline Danno — Monique
- Katia Cavaignac — Florence
- Jean-Pierre Miquel — The Chief Commissioner
- Hélène Surgère — Helen
- Sonia Saviange — The Woman in Silk
- Nicole Courcel — Claire
- Paule Annen — Ms. Elizabeth
- Andrée Tainsy — Jeanne
Interesting facts
The Strangler is a 1970 French psychological thriller by Paul Vecchiali which centers on a young man named Emile who strangles women who are depressed for mercy, because of the childhood trauma he endured, as the police try to catch the killer. The film was restored in 2023.
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