{"id":37488,"date":"2024-11-06T07:27:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T12:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37488"},"modified":"2024-11-06T07:27:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T12:27:38","slug":"the-strangler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37488","title":{"rendered":"The Strangler (1964) starring Victor Buono"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z110624zview_thestrangler.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"770\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The Strangler <\/i>(1964)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Burt Topper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Bill S. Ballinger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Victor Buono, David McLean, Diane Sayer, Davey Davison, Baynes Barron, Russ Bender, Jeanne Bates, Byron Morrow, James Sikking, Selette Cole, Fred Aldrich <\/strong>and <strong>Ellen Corby<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> Based on the terror that has shocked the nation!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A serial killer has strangled several women in a short amount of time.\u00a0 Police have few clues and no good leads.\u00a0 Little do they know that in one of their roundups, they had the killer.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a mild mannered overweight lab technician.\u00a0 He offered to take a lie detector test and passed with flying colors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How many more women will die at his hands?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Strangler<\/em> was inspired by the serial killer known as The Boston Strangler.\u00a0 The police had not caught the Boston Strangler when <em>The Strangler<\/em> went into production.\u00a0 At one point, the producers were going to call the movie, <em>The Boston Strangler<\/em>.\u00a0 They decided to go with the shorter title and not name the city in the film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i>The Strangler <\/i>(1964)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z110624zview_thestrangler2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strangler (1964) Director: Burt Topper Screenplay: Bill S. Ballinger Stars: Victor Buono, David McLean, Diane Sayer, Davey Davison, Baynes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37488"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37569,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37488\/revisions\/37569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}