The Killer Is Loose

• 6.6 Crime
• 1956-02-03
• 73 minutes mins

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies 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.

Starring:

Joseph Cotten (Detective Sam Wagner) Rhonda Fleming (Lila Wagner) Wendell Corey (Leon 'Foggy' Poole) Alan Hale Jr. (Denny) Michael Pate (Detective Chris Gillespie) John Larch (Otto Flanders) Dee J. Thompson (Grace Flanders) John Beradino (Mac) Virginia Christine (Mary Gillespie) Paul Bryar (Greg Boyd)

Director:

Budd Boetticher

Writer:

Harold Medford