The Killer Is Loose

  • Crime
  • Thriller
2/3/1956
73
NR

He was no ordinary killer... She was no ordinary victim... This is no ordinary motion picture!

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.

Director:
Budd Boetticher
Writer:
Harold Medford
    • prison
    • escape
    • trial
    • revenge
    • film noir
    • inside man
    • police detective
    • courtroom
    • bank teller
    • escaped prisoner
    • innocent person killed
    • bank robbery attempt
    • prison farm
    • revenge murderer
    • vengeance
    • fearful wife
    • revenge thriller
    • fugitive murderer
    • husband wife conflict
    • revenge for bullying
    • avenging husband

    Cast

    • Joseph Cotten
      Detective Sam Wagner
    • Rhonda Fleming
      Lila Wagner
    • Wendell Corey
      Leon 'Foggy' Poole
    • Alan Hale Jr.
      Detective Denny
    • Michael Pate
      Detective Chris Gillespie
    • John Larch
      Otto Flanders
    • Dee J. Thompson
      Grace Flanders
    • John Beradino
      Mac
    • Virginia Christine
      Mary Gillespie
    • Paul Bryar
      Greg Boyd
    • Brick Sullivan
      Bus Passenger (uncredited)
    • Stanley Adams
      Honor Farm Guard (uncredited)
    • Leon Alton
      Bank Robber (uncredited)
    • Don Beddoe
      Mr. Freeman (uncredited)
    • Gail Bonney
      Mrs. Andrews (uncredited)
    • John Cliff
      Ed (uncredited)

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