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The Killer Is Loose (1956)

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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 5
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Release Date: Jan 1, 1956 Wide

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In this thriller, "Foggy" (Wendell Corey) is a bank teller who got his nickname for the thick spectacles he must wear. Foggy is also an inside man for a gang of thieves planning to rob his bank. Unfortunately, their plan goes awry and he is arrested. During the ensuing scuffle, his wife is accidentally killed and the crook blames the arresting officer (Joseph Cotten). While he stands trial, Foggy lets on that he plans on getting revenge by killing the officer's wife. Later he is transferred to a

PG, 1 hr. 13 min.

Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Classics

Directed By: Budd Boetticher

Written By: Harold Medford, John E. Hawkins

In Theaters: Jan 1, 1956 Wide

Cast

Joseph Cotten
Sam Wagner
Rhonda Fleming
Lila Wagner
Wendell Corey
Leon "Foggy" Poole
Alan Hale Jr.
Denny
Michael Pate
Chris Gillespie
Virginia Christine
Mary Gillespie
John Larch
Otto Flanders
John Beradino
Mac
Dee J. Thompson
Grace Flanders
Paul Bryar
Greg

Critic Reviews for The Killer Is Loose

All Critics (9) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (2) | DVD (3)

Strange, moody film noir, filled with observations on daily life, technology and gender in the 1950's.

August 10, 2011 Full Review Source: Classic Film and Television

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Michael E. Grost

Classic Film and Television

A rather creaky attempt at a film noir with very little of the psychological violence and use of landscape that would define [Boetticher's] later films.

July 25, 2011 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Plays out like some sort of slow-motion fever dream.

May 23, 2006 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

Handed a narrative stuffed with cat-and-mouse violence, the filmmaker plays down dark hysteria in favor of grayish curtness, and the film is no less tense for that.

May 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Fernando F. Croce

Slant Magazine

A typical 1950s noir.

April 14, 2003 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Decently acted little noir. Wendell Corey didn't have the magnetism to make it as a lead but he was always an excellent supporting player whether he was playing the dark or the light, he's most effective here as the villiain.The story is a straightforward crime drama with no extra frills done on a small budget which is

February 17, 2011

jay nixon

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good stuff. escaped psycho gunning for a policeman's wife. really tense and well directed

June 26, 2009

Stella Dallas

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