The Night Strangler

The Night Strangler
Jo Ann Pflug and Darren McGavin in The Night Strangler
Directed by	Dan Curtis
Produced by	Dan Curtis
Written by	Richard Matheson
Starring	Darren McGavin Simon Oakland Jo Ann Pflug Richard Anderson
Music by	Bob Cobert
Cinematography	Robert B. Hauser
Editing by	Folmar Blangsted
Running time	74 minutes
Country	USA
Preceded by	The Night Stalker
Followed by	Kolchak: The Night Stalker

The Night Strangler is a made for television movie which first aired on ABC on January 16, 1972 as a sequel to The Night Stalker. It is currently available on DVD.

Cast

• Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak
• Jo Ann Pflug as Louise Harper
• Simon Oakland as Tony Vincenzo
• Scott Brady as Capt. Schubert
• Wally Cox as Mr. Berry
• Margaret Hamilton as Prof. Crabwell
• John Carradine as Llewellyn Crossbinder
• Al Lewis as Tramp
• Nina Wayne as Charisma Beauty
• Virginia Peters as Wilma Krankheimer
• Kate Murtagh as Janie Watkins
• Ivor Francis as Dr. Webb
• Diane Shalet as Joyce Gabriel
• Anne Randall as Policewoman Sheila
• Francoise Birnheim as Restaurant Woman
• Richard Anderson as Dr. Richard Malcom

Plot synopsis

Reporter Carl Kolchak, now in Seattle, Washington (having been run out of Las Vegas at the end of the last film) is assigned to the story of a series of killings, in which the victims, all exotic dancers, are strangled, their necks crushed, then drained of a few ounces of blood. He discovers that there was a similar rash of killings twenty-one years prior. Then he learns of another twenty-one years before that. It turns out that they have been occurring every twenty-one years for about a century.

It seems the killer needs the blood for a kind of elixir of life which keeps him alive for twenty-one years at a time. Of course no one believes Kolchak, and the powers that be want to silence him.

Kolshak enters into a race against time to stop the killer before he is able to complete the creation of his elixir and disappear for another twenty-one years.

See also

• The Night Stalker the predecessor to The Night Strangler
• Kolchak: The Night Stalker, a 1974 television series based on the movies, also starring Darren McGavin
• Night Stalker, a 2005 remake of the original Kolchak series

External links

• The Night Strangler at IMDb