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The Killer Is Loose is a 1956 American crime film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming and Wendell Corey. An independent production, it was released by United Artists.
The Killer Is Loose: Directed by Budd Boetticher. With Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Alan Hale Jr.. An unhinged, deceptively mild-mannered bank robber escapes prison, seeking revenge on the cop who accidentally killed his wife during a gun battle.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Budd Boetticher
- 1956-02-03
Sep 5, 2021 · The Killer Is Loose is a 1956 American FILM NOlR crime film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming and Wendell Corey. You can find out more about this movie from Wikipedia.
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Just before these classic adventures of the old west, Boetticher directed a dark tale of justice and revenge set in the modern west, The Killer Is Loose (1956). When robbers invade a bank, mild-mannered, bespectacled teller Leon Poole tries and fails to stop them from escaping.
- Budd Boetticher, Jack Sontag, Dolph Zimmer
- Joseph Cotten
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies teller Leon Poole as inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner.
Perhaps a kind of precursor to Cape Fear (1962) in story and theme, Budd Boetticher’s The Killer is Loose is a consistently suspenseful revenge noir whose impact largely stems from Wendell Corey’s brilliantly understated performance as the mentally unstable escaped convict on a mission to kill. Having been sentenced for bank robbery, Leon ...
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Budd Boetticher's "The Killer is Loose" assembles a series of circumstances into a story of one man's obsession to avenge the death of his wife by the police and to show society and himself who he really is and has been but just never let it out until now.
