The Killer Is Loose
He was no ordinary killer... She was no ordinary victim... This is no ordinary motion picture!
Feb 3, 1956 · 1h 13m · Crime, Thriller
⭐ 6.6· 59 votes
Director Budd Boetticher
Writer Harold Medford
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Overview
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.
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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)
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