The Killer Is Loose
He was no ordinary killer... She was no ordinary victim... This is no ordinary motion picture!
6.7(62) 1956-02-03 73 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.
DirectorBudd Boetticher
ProducerRobert L. Jacks
ScreenplayHarold Medford
Original Music ComposerLionel Newman
Cast & characters
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
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Dee J. Thompson
as Grace Flanders
John Beradino
as Mac
Virginia Christine
as Mary Gillespie
Paul Bryar
as Greg Boyd
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Brick Sullivan
as Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Stanley Adams
as Honor Farm Guard (uncredited)
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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)
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Rudy Germane
as Bailiff (uncredited)
Frank Gerstle
as Holdup Man (uncredited)
