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The Killer Is Loose
Release Date: February 03, 1956
Year | : | 1956 |
Slogan | : | «He was no ordinary killer... She was no ordinary victim... This is no ordinary motion picture!» |
Genres | : | Drama, Thriller, Crime |
Production Companies | : | Crown Productions, United Artists |
Director | : | Budd Boetticher |
Producers | : | Robert L. Jacks, Clarence Eurist |
Writers | : | John Hawkins, Ward Hawkins, Harold Medford |
RunTime | : | 73 mins. |
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. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.
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