- HD 1080
- Runtime: 73m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Budd Boetticher
- Stars: Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Alan Hale Jr., Michael Pate
- keywords: prison, escape, detective, trial, revenge, film noir, bank robbery attempt
- Production_studio: Crown Productions, United Artists
- Slogan: He was no ordinary killer... She was no ordinary victim... This is no ordinary motion picture!
- The The Killer Is Loose is featured in the top rankings of 1956
- #11 in Top Crime Movies of 1956
- #15 in Top Thriller Movies of 1956
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies bank teller Leon Poole as the 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.
