The Haunted Strangler (1958)

Boris Karloff: James Rankin

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• James Rankin : I'm sorry, Barbara, but a man must do the work in which he believes!

• James Rankin : You mean he killed while in some sort of trance?

• Supt. Burk : I don't know why you social reformers always want to play detective to prove your theories.

  James Rankin : Because you detectives always leave such gaps on your investigations.

• Supt. Burk : I've been back over the records, and given you at least a dozen cases -- why on Earth choose this one?

  James Rankin : It's the one clear case that'll prove my point! If Styles had had the money to buy an adequate defense, he never would have hanged.

• Barbara Rankin : How much longer are are these investigations going on?

  James Rankin : Oh, I'm afraid the end isn't quite in sight, Barbara.

  Barbara Rankin : But it's all past. That man was dead and buried 20 years ago. Let him rest.

  James Rankin : I know I can't bring Styles back from the dead, but one could force a change in the legal system so that a poor man would have a lawyer to defend him. Styles was a typical case, and there'll be plenty of others...

• James Rankin : No need for a man to go to prison just because he has bad friends.