The Killer Is Loose
66 %|Feb 3, 1956|Crime, Thriller
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.
Featured Crew
Budd Boetticher
Director
Robert L. Jacks
Producer
Lionel Newman
Music
A. Leslie Thomas
Art Direction
Wayne Fury
Sound Editor
Bernard Mayers
Orchestrator
Frank Webster
Sound
Ida Banks
Hairstylist
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
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)
Lawrence Dobkin
Bank Robber (uncredited)
George Eldredge
Police Captain (uncredited)
Rudy Germane
Bailiff (uncredited)
Frank Gerstle
Holdup Man (uncredited)
Tim Graham
Apartment House Manager (uncredited)
William Hudson
Detective on Stakeout (uncredited)
Michael Jeffers
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Carol Kelly
Miss Shaw (uncredited)
John Phillips
Police Detective (uncredited)
Stafford Repp
Captain Lyle Snow (uncredited)
Arthur Space
Bill (uncredited)
Charles Wagenheim
Clothing Store Owner (uncredited)
Martha Wentworth
Apartment House Manager's Wife (uncredited)