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The Killer Is Loose

The Killer Is Loose1956

★6.773 minCrimeThriller

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.

Director

Budd Boetticher

Writer

John Hawkins Harold Medford Ward Hawkins

Score

Stars

Joseph Cotten Rhonda Fleming Wendell Corey

Cast33

Joseph Cotten
as Detective Sam Wagner
Rhonda Fleming
as Lila Wagner
Wendell Corey
as Leon 'Foggy' Poole
Alan Hale Jr.
as Detective Denny
Michael Pate
as Detective Chris Gillespie
John Larch
as Otto Flanders
D
Dee J. Thompson
as Grace Flanders
John Beradino
as Mac
Virginia Christine
as Mary Gillespie
Paul Bryar
as Greg Boyd
B
Brick Sullivan
as Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Stanley Adams
as Honor Farm Guard (uncredited)
L
Leon Alton
as Bank Robber (uncredited)
Don Beddoe
as Mr. Freeman (uncredited)
Gail Bonney
as Mrs. Andrews (uncredited)
John Cliff
as Ed (uncredited)
Richard Collier
as Assistant District Attorney (uncredited)
Martha Crawford
as Doris Poole (uncredited)
Richard H. Cutting
as Judge (uncredited)
John Dennis
as Highway Patrolman at Roadblock (uncredited)
Lawrence Dobkin
as Bank Robber (uncredited)
George Eldredge
as Police Captain (uncredited)
R
Rudy Germane
as Bailiff (uncredited)
Frank Gerstle
as Holdup Man (uncredited)
T
Tim Graham
as Apartment House Manager (uncredited)
W
William Hudson
as Detective on Stakeout (uncredited)
Michael Jeffers
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Carol Kelly
as Miss Shaw (uncredited)
John Phillips
as Police Detective (uncredited)
Stafford Repp
as Captain Lyle Snow (uncredited)
Arthur Space
as Bill (uncredited)
Charles Wagenheim
as Clothing Store Owner (uncredited)
Martha Wentworth
as Apartment House Manager's Wife (uncredited)

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