The Killer Is Loose (1956) Cast & Crew

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Directed by Budd Boetticher.

Cast

• Joseph Cotten as Detective Sam Wagner
• Rhonda Fleming as Lila Wagner
• Wendell Corey as Leon 'Foggy' Poole
• Alan Hale Jr. as Detective Denny
• Michael Pate as Detective Chris Gillespie
• John Larch as Otto Flanders
• Dee J. Thompson as Grace Flanders
• John Beradino as Mac
• Virginia Christine as Mary Gillespie
• Paul Bryar as Greg Boyd
• Brick Sullivan as Bus Passenger (uncredited)
• Stanley Adams as Honor Farm Guard (uncredited)
• Leon Alton as Bank Robber (uncredited)
• Don Beddoe as Mr. Freeman (uncredited)
• Gail Bonney as Mrs. Andrews (uncredited)
• John Cliff as Ed (uncredited)
• Richard Collier as Assistant District Attorney (uncredited)
• Martha Crawford as Doris Poole (uncredited)
• Richard H. Cutting as Judge (uncredited)
• John Dennis as Highway Patrolman at Roadblock (uncredited)
• Lawrence Dobkin as Bank Robber (uncredited)
• George Eldredge as Police Captain (uncredited)
• Rudy Germane as Bailiff (uncredited)
• Frank Gerstle as Holdup Man (uncredited)
• Tim Graham as Apartment House Manager (uncredited)
• William Hudson as Detective on Stakeout (uncredited)
• Michael Jeffers as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
• Carol Kelly as Miss Shaw (uncredited)
• John Phillips as Police Detective (uncredited)
• Stafford Repp as Captain Lyle Snow (uncredited)
• Arthur Space as Bill (uncredited)
• Charles Wagenheim as Clothing Store Owner (uncredited)
• Martha Wentworth as Apartment House Manager's Wife (uncredited)

Crew

• Budd Boetticher — Director
• Robert L. Jacks — Producer
• Harold Medford — Screenplay
• Lucien Ballard — Director of Photography
• Lionel Newman — Original Music Composer

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