The Phantom Strikes (The Gaunt Stranger)
- Original title
- The Gaunt Strangeraka
- AKA
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- The Phantom Strikes
- Year
- 1938
- Running time
- 73 min.
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Sidney Gilliat. Play: Edgar Wallace
- Cast
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- Sonnie Hale
- Wilfrid Lawson
- Louise Henry
- Alexander Knox
- Patricia Roc
- Peter Croft
- Patrick Barr
- John Longden
- George Merritt
- Charles Eaton
- Arthur Hambling
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- Music
- Cinematography
Gordon Dines, Ronald Neame (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Drama. Mystery | Crime
- Synopsis
- Crooked lawyer Maurice Meister's (Lawson) life is threatened by his ex-partner who is a master of disguise known as the Ringer. The police give him protection and place in his house the only man who can identify the Ringer - Sam Hackett (Hale) a small time crook. Despite the best efforts of Inspector Wembury (Barr), Dr Lomond (Knox) the police psychologist and Australian detective Inspector Bliss (Longden) Meister is murdered and the Ringer gets away.
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