The Gaunt Stranger (released as The Phantom Strikes in the US) is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Walter Forde.

A notorious killer, long believed to have died in Australia, returns to England seeking revenge for the death of his sister.

Detective Inspector Alan Wembury is assigned to the case and, despite his strong dislike for Meister, attempts to protect him with the reluctant assistance of another criminal, Sam Hackett, who has been released from prison as he is the only man able to identify the "Ringer".

The film was made by and at Ealing Studios,[5] and was the company's first release after Michael Balcon's appointment as head of production.

IMDB give John Longden as Inspector Wembury, in fact Patrick Barr played this part.