The Killer Is Loose

Name: The Killer Is Loose
Director: Budd Boetticher
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Released: 1956-02-03
Duration: 1 h 13 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Alan Hale Jr., Michael Pate

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

1956

1h 13m

Crime Thriller

Director: Budd Boetticher

Writers: Harold Medford, John Hawkins

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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.