The Killer Is Loose (1956)

1956 · Feature film · 73 min · dir. Budd Boetticher

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

• film noir
• Crime

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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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Details

Director

Budd Boetticher

Writer

Harold Medford

Cinematography

Lucien Ballard

Studio

Crown Productions, United Artists

Released

1956-02-03

Running time

73 minutes

Cast & crew

• Budd Boetticher Director
• John Beradino
• John Larch
• Wendell Corey
• Michael Pate
• Alan Hale, Jr.
• Charles Wagenheim
• Lawrence Dobkin
• Rhonda Fleming

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