The Hangman Waits is a 1947 British second feature ('B')[1] thriller film written, directed and produced by A. Barr Smith, starring Beatrice Campbell and John Turnbull.

[2] Shot documentary-style, the film tells the story of a murderer who comes to a grisly end.

A cinema organist murders an usherette, leaving the dismembered remains of her body in a trunk at London's Victoria Station.

Attempts are made at building up an atmosphere of tension by a series of dramatic effects, some imaginative, some incongruous, which punctuate the tale from start to finish.

More successful are scenes like those in the newspaper office, at the station or in the streets of London, which are free at least from pretentious lights and shadows.