The Killer Is Loose - 1956 - 6/10
Curbside, the getaway sedan purrs like a tiger. The wheelman, eyes and ears on full alert, watches the building. Next to him, the gunman, patient as blight, calmly holds his weapon. At either end of the bank, two confederates nod. And the heist unfolds.
Easy money, folks. No gunfire, no injuries. Yeah, Jack, crime pays.
Except there were a couple of loose comments, which the police, ever perceptive, pick up on. There had been an inside man.
All the makings of a police procedural fly apart after a trigger-happy raid.
An innocent is slain, and the one left grieving vows revenge … and waits.
Decent B-Noir, undercut by domestic melodramatics.
Joseph Cotton and Rhonda Fleming notwithstanding, the reason to watch is Wendell Corey, his character maddened by grief, driven and resourceful in vengeance.
And – Los Angeles, filmed during rainy season, night and day.