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The Killer Is Loose

He was no ordinary killer... She was no ordinary victim... This is no ordinary motion picture!

Rating 6.7 / 10Release February 3, 1956Runtime 73 min

A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek 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.

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