The Killer Is Loose

A very good transfer - B/w Clear picture, good sound and excellent optional English subtitles. A little gem of a thriller directed by Boetticher just before his classic westerns with Randolph Scott. A fast moving tale of revenge and police proceedure with Cotten on top form as a policeman responsible for the death of thief Wendell Corey's wife. Corey escapes from prison and goes after Cotten's wife (Rhonda Fleming). Hardly a minute is wasted as relentlessly Corey pursues his goal, and the final minutes are genuinely tense. Good to see Alan Hale in a decent role, along with a very good Michael Pate, and John Larch, and new to me Dee J.Thompson as Larch's wife. Great script and acting. A must see for lovers of the period and a good thriller. (Pity they made the gorgeous Rhonda's character rather unsympathetic, but she looks marvellous - even in B/W). Highly recomended.

Sorry to be picky, but this is not film noir. Its a straight forward suspense movie. But a very good one! Yes, the wife is very unlikeable (but attractive!). The villain is unusual, not a one dimensional evil doer of the 50s. And the story is good, short (a little over an hour) and non stop suspense/action, specially for a 50s film. I can imagine this being the B movie played before a major film (and maybe outdoing it!)

I am always trolling Prime for old black and white movies because I believe that they are the best! I thoroughly enjoyed this film noir. I thought I had seen all the film noir's but I had a great time watching this movie. 5 stars well deserved. Great acting!

Wow! What pathetic police work: nobody wanted to make a decision ... especially at the conclusion with the shoot-out on the neighborhood lawn at the end.Joseph Cotton couldn't make it out of his house to help his wife without clumsily knocking over the lamp after falling by the couch. Outside, his wife was no different: she tripped heading up the driveway.I bet they also probably shot the neighbor's dog. What action! Ha!

pretty good old black and white noir movie... I remember these cars and stuff when I was a youngster, fun to see them again and the movie is good old fashioned morality tale. Not much amoral shades of gray crap here except the detective felt guilty when it wasn't his fault, the crook put his wife in danger by his choices.

I enjoy Joseph Cotton and Wendell Corey movies. However, this one was okay but not up to par with prior movies. It was somewhat suspenseful at times.

I primarily watched it to see Joseph Cotton, who turned out to be kind of wimpish during the stake out! I love watching old TV shows and movies to see who I can recognize. In this one, the Captain from Gilligan and Steve Hardy from General Hospital.

If this movie wasn't intentionally made to be funny, I'd be very surprised--so many characters do something obviously dumb that it's hard to believe that it's not meant to be amusing. Would have been the perfect subject for a Mystery Science Theater episode. We watch this every few years for a hoot.