A young mentally-ill killer, Gunther Wyckoff, escapes from a mental institution, murder a bus driver and, then, takes six hostages in a bar. The gun in Wyckoff's hand kills without emotion or pity wielded by a man bare of emotion. Begins as a moral question whether an insane killer should or should not be sent to the electric, but goes elsewhere before it ends.
| Release Date: | Nov 1950 |
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| Genre: | Drama / Film-Noir |
| Cast: | Marshall Thompson (Gunther Wyckoff), Virginia Field (Freddy), Andrea King (Helen), Sam Levene (Dr. John D. Faron), Leon Ames (Earl), Keefe Brasselle (Skip), Richard Rober (Police Capt. Henry Keiver), James Bell (Harrison D. Barnes), William Conrad (Chuckles), Dick Simmons (Television Announcer), Hal Baylor (Police Lt. 'Whitey' Tallman (as Hal...), Joel Allen ((uncredited)), John Alvin (Television Director (uncredited)), Bill Baldwin (Reporter (uncredited)), Barbara Billingsley (Dorothy, Editor's Secretary (uncredited)), Argentina Brunetti (Bus Passenger (uncredited)), John Bryant (Reporter (uncredited)), Donia Bussey (Woman on Street (uncredited)), Roy Butler (Pedestrian (uncredited)), Frank Cady (Fred Backett, Man on Street (uncredited)), Naomi Childers (Mother (voice) (uncredited)), John Damler (Bus Driver (uncredited)), Michael Dugan (Plainclothes Cop (uncredited)), Phil Dunham (Druggist (uncredited)), Mary Emery (Woman at Bar (uncredited)), Betty Farrington (Pedestrian (uncredited)), Robert Foulk (Barnes' Co-Worker (uncredited)), Jimmie Fox (Janitor (uncredited)), Sig Frohlich ((uncredited)), Kenneth Garcia (Policeman (uncredited)), A. Cameron Grant (Man at Bar (uncredited)), Kirby Grant (Reporter (uncredited)), Sherry Hall (Reporter (uncredited)), Mahlon Hamilton ((uncredited)), Clarence Hennecke (Newsboy (uncredited)), Peter Leeds (Martin, Wounded Policeman (uncredited)), Mitchell Lewis ((uncredited)), Arthur M. Loew Jr. (Reporter (uncredited)), George Magrill (Policeman (uncredited)), Hank Mann (Newsboy (uncredited)), John Maxwell (Frank, City Editor (uncredited)), Rhea Mitchell ((uncredited)), Eleanor Moore ((uncredited)), Roger Moore (Pedestrian (uncredited)), Lee Phelps ((uncredited)), Paul Picerni (Interpreter-Detective (uncredited)), Alice Richey ((uncredited)), Ralph Roberts (Boyd (uncredited)), Jewel Rose (Pedestrian (uncredited)), Fred Santley (Pedestrian (uncredited)), Carl Saxe (Bus Driver (uncredited)), James R. Scott (Pedestrian (uncredited)), George Sherwood (Detective (uncredited)), Robert R. Stephenson (Spectator (uncredited)), Robert Strong (Plainclothes Cop (uncredited)), William Tannen (WKYL Radio Announcer (uncredited)), Peter M. Thompson (Reporter (uncredited)), Charles Wagenheim (Man on Street (uncredited)), Wilson Wood (Television Man (uncredited)) |