The Killer is Loose Joseph Cotten Rhonda Fleming Wendell Corey Boetticher Poster

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The Killer is Loose starring Joseph Cotten * Rhonda Fleming * Wendell Corey  1956 United Artists  directed by Budd Boetticher -
27 x 48  Poster is in very good condition!!!!... very minor edge wear  - has the usually folds (see photos)
Cult director Budd Boetticher is usually associated with the seven Westerns he made with Randolph Scott, beginning with
Seven Men From Now (1956)
and ending with
Comanche Station
(1960). Just before these classic adventures of the old west, Boetticher directed a dark tale of justice and revenge set in the modern west, The Killer Is Loose (1956).
Wendell Corey, probably best known to movie lovers as James Stewart's skeptical detective friend in Alfred Hitchcock's
Rear Window
(1954), gives what may be the best performance of his career as the killer Leon Poole. Derided during the war as "Foggy" for his thick glasses, Poole is an utter milquetoast, the sort of person who is usually a victim of crime in movies, not a perpetrator. Corey plays Poole as perpetually cowed, using a soft voice even when threatening others with death. It's a tightrope performance that has audiences sympathizing with him and, at the same time, being repulsed by his twisted logic and heinous behavior.
The Killer Is Loose was a quickly produced B-picture with a grade B plot but Boetticher and his actors infuse it with enough twists to make the movie interesting. If he had not immediately turned to directing Randolph Scott riding tall in the saddle, Boetticher could still have made a name for himself creating thrillers like this.
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