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Los Angeles is paralysed with terror when a lovesick murderer takes to the streets with a pair of garden shears

Released: May 8, 1952

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Adam Williams

Carl Martin

Meg Randall

Jane Saunders

Harlan Warde

Police Detective Sgt. Don Warde

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