Bottle-bottom bespectacled “Foggy” Poole (Wendell Corey) is an unassuming bank clerk, turned to become the inside man on a heist. When the police try to apprehend him, his wife is caught in the crossfire. Foggy is clear about one thing: he'll seek revenge for his wife's death; and since the arresting officer has a knockout mate (Rhonda Fleming wed to Joseph Cotten) why not a “wife for a wife”? Contrary to the title, The Killer Is Loose is a tight and trim tale of noir terror as Budd Boetticher turns uptight Poole loose in the ‘burbs. Corey's myopic sociopath is a sight to behold.