The Killer Is Loose

He was no ordinary killer... She was no ordinary victim... This is no ordinary motion picture!

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.

1956

Crime·Thriller

1h 13min

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Top Billed Cast

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
Brick Sullivan
Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Stanley Adams
Honor Farm Guard (uncredited)
Leon Alton
Bank Robber (uncredited)
Don Beddoe
Mr. Freeman (uncredited)
Gail Bonney
Mrs. Andrews (uncredited)
John Cliff
Ed (uncredited)
Richard Collier
Assistant District Attorney (uncredited)
Martha Crawford
Doris Poole (uncredited)
Richard H. Cutting
Judge (uncredited)
John Dennis
Highway Patrolman at Roadblock (uncredited)

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