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The Killer Is Loose

The Killer Is Loose

Budd Boetticher

1956

  • Crime
  • Thriller
6.7

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.

Cast & crew

  • Budd BoetticherDirector
  • Joseph CottenDetective Sam Wagner
  • Rhonda FlemingLila Wagner
  • Wendell CoreyLeon 'Foggy' Poole
  • Alan Hale Jr.Detective Denny
  • Michael PateDetective Chris Gillespie
  • John LarchOtto Flanders
  • Dee J. ThompsonGrace Flanders
  • John BeradinoMac

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