Fri September 27, 2013
The Killer Is Loose, Budd Boetticher (U.S., 1956)
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at Pacific Film Archive (PFA) Theater
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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.
—Steve Seid
• Written by Harold Medford, based on the story by John and Ward Hawkins. Photographed by Lucien Ballard. With Wendell Corey, Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Alan Hale. (73 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Park Circus)
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—Steve Seid
• Written by Harold Medford, based on the story by John and Ward Hawkins. Photographed by Lucien Ballard. With Wendell Corey, Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Alan Hale. (73 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Park Circus)
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.
—Steve Seid
• Written by Harold Medford, based on the story by John and Ward Hawkins. Photographed by Lucien Ballard. With Wendell Corey, Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Alan Hale. (73 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Park Circus)
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—Steve Seid
• Written by Harold Medford, based on the story by John and Ward Hawkins. Photographed by Lucien Ballard. With Wendell Corey, Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Alan Hale. (73 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Park Circus)
show less
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Pacific Film Archive (PFA) Theater
2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
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