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60% Tomatometer 5 Reviews 40% Audience Score 100+ Ratings Humble bank teller Leon Poole (Wendell Corey) participates in a heist that doesn't go as planned. When police surround his apartment ...
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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
User Reviews. "The Killer is Loose" is a 1956 B film directed by Budd Boetticher, and it's pretty good. It stars Wendell Corey as Leon Poole, a man who is working in a bank when a robbery occurs. It doesn't take long for the police to determine that he's the inside man.
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 ...
19 ★★★★★ ratings (1%) ★★★★★. Popular reviews. More. Review by sakana1 ★★★½ 6. I found The Killer is Loose more admirable than emotionally engaging, but I admire the hell out of it.
