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The Killer Is Loose

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

1956 · NR · 1h 13m

Directed by Budd Boetticher

6.7

TMDB audience score
62 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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)

  • John Cliff
    Ed (uncredited)

  • Richard Collier
    Assistant District Attorney (uncredited)

  • Martha Crawford
    Doris Poole (uncredited)