The Killer Is Loose (1956)
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Cast
as Leon "Foggy" Poole
as Lila Wagner
as Sam Wagner
as Chris Gillespie
as Denny
as Mary Gillespie
as Otto Flanders
as Mac
as Greg
as Grace Flanders
Critic Reviews for The Killer Is Loose
All Critics (5) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (2) | DVD (1)
Plays out like some sort of slow-motion fever dream.
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.
Strange, moody film noir, filled with observations on daily life, technology and gender in the 1950's.
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.
A typical 1950s noir.
Audience Reviews for The Killer Is Loose
"The Killer Is Loose" is a watchable police yarn that ultimately suffers from an incompetent final act and a short running time that allows us little interaction with the characters. The performances are all fine, but the action is the kind of stuff you've seen a thousand times before. Still, it works as a great time-passer.
Super Reviewer
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 perfect for noir anyway. A feast for any old time movie and TV buff what with the Skipper, Mrs. Olsen and Dr. Steve Hardy from General Hospital all in the same film.
Super Reviewer
good stuff. escaped psycho gunning for a policeman's wife. really tense and well directed
Super Reviewer
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