The Killer Is Loose (1956)
Approved | 1h 13min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | February 1956 (USA)
An unhinged, deceptively mild-mannered bank robber escapes prison, seeking revenge on the cop who accidentally killed his wife during a gun battle.
Harold Medford (screenplay), John Hawkins (from a story by) | 1 more credit »
Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey | See full cast & crew »
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Title: The Killer Is Loose (1956)
Another Man's Poison (1951)
In an isolated house, mystery writer Janet Frobisher is involved in potentially murderous relationships.
Director: Irving Rapper
Stars: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams
The Steel Trap (1952)
A Bank officer discovers a flaw in the U.S. extradition treaty with Brazil and decides to take advantage of it. On Friday, he steals a million dollars from the bank, knowing it won't be ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew L. Stone
Stars: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Jonathan Hale
Crime of Passion (1957)
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr
Bellman and True (1987)
Hiller, a computer expert, was bribed by group of bank robbers to obtain details of the security system at a newly-built bank. Having obtained the information, he thought he'd seen the last... See full summary »
Director: Richard Loncraine
Stars: Bernard Hill, Derek Newark, Richard Hope
Witness to Murder (1954)
A woman's sanity comes into question, after she claims to have witnessed a murder from her apartment window.
Director: Roy Rowland
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill
A suddenly-unemployed executive suffers a nervous breakdown.
Director: Melvin Frank
Stars: Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks
The Racket (1951)
In New York, two honest cops try to hinder a crime syndicate from moving into the precinct and also to prevent the mob's plan of electing a corrupt prosecutor to a judgeship.
Directors: John Cromwell, Mel Ferrer, and 3 more credits »
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948)
John Blandish is worth $100 million. His heiress daughter is soon to be wed to Foster Harvey, who believes she's a cold, unfeeling woman, despite loving her. Her cold emotional state is in ... See full summary »
Director: St. John Legh Clowes
Stars: Jack La Rue, Hugh McDermott, Linden Travers
A Blueprint for Murder (1953)
Whitney Cameron suspects his sister-in-law has poisoned his brother and niece, but without proof how does he prevent the murder of his nephew?
Stars: Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Gary Merrill
When 2 detectives steal $80,000 from a dead robber, one of them suffers from a guilty conscience which could lead to murder.
Director: Don Siegel
Stars: Ida Lupino, Steve Cochran, Howard Duff
I Walk Alone (1947)
Frankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex-partner. But Prohibition bootlegging didn't prepare Frankie for Big Business.
Director: Byron Haskin
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas
Plunder Road (1957)
Five men rob a train in Utah of 10 million dollars in gold and head to Los Angeles in 3 trucks hoping to meet up with their beautiful accomplice, and leave the country.
Director: Hubert Cornfield
Stars: Gene Raymond, Jeanne Cooper, Wayne Morris
Joseph Cotten ... Detective Sam Wagner
Rhonda Fleming ... Lila Wagner
Wendell Corey ... Leon 'Foggy' Poole
Alan Hale Jr. ... Denny (as Alan Hale)
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
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. About three years later, Poole (until then a model prisoner) abruptly takes his chance to kill a guard and escape. It's clear during the ensuing manhunt that Poole is obsessed in pursuit of a single end; but not quite the end everyone supposes. Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
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The Story of a Cop Who Used His Wife as Bait for a Killer! See more »
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
February 1956 (USA) See more »
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W. Pico Blvd. and S. Roxbury Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
When the police cars are shown at the roadblock, they are clearly Highway Patrol vehicles. Afterwards, Wagner is shown meeting with State Policemen. See more »
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Very mixed bag, the best parts making it worth the worst of it!
9 December 2010 | by secondtake – See all my reviews
The first hour of this movie is really tight, very believable, nicely low key but still with some narrative excitement. Joseph Cotten is very good, and if the filming is straight forward, it's effective all the same. Then the last twenty minutes come along and what is supposed to be high drama (very intense stuff) is just so clumsy and fake you can't believe it's the same movie.
That, in a nutshell, is what will strike you. There are some elements of a cop being loyal to his job and the cop's wife not liking being a cop's wife. And the bad buy, a weirdly detached and offbeat killer, is played to perfection by Wendell Corey. There's even a cross dressing moment at the end which is fun and almost high camp.
But now I'm dredging for dollars. Enjoy the ride, but don't expect too too much.