The Killer Is Loose (1956)
He was no ordinary killer... She was no ordinary victim... This is no ordinary motion picture!
73 min
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.
- Release date
- February 3, 1956
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Joseph Cotten as Detective Sam Wagner
- Rhonda Fleming as Lila Wagner
- Wendell Corey as Leon Poole
- Alan Hale Jr. as Denny
- Michael Pate as Detective Chris Gillespie
- John Larch as Otto Flanders
- Dee J. Thompson as Grace Flanders
- John Beradino as Mac
- Virginia Christine as Mary Gillespie
- Paul Bryar as Greg Boyd
Crew
- Budd Boetticher · Director
- Harold Medford · Writer
- John Hawkins · Writer
- Ward Hawkins · Writer
- Robert L. Jacks · Producer
- Lionel Newman · Composer
- Lucien Ballard · Cinematographer
- George A. Gittens · Editor