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Synopsis: A young mentally-ill killer, Gunther Wyckoff, escapes from a mental institution, murders 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. It begins as a moral question whether an insane killer should or should not be sent to the electric chair, but goes elsewhere before it ends.
Director(s): Gerald Mayer
Production: MGM
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.7
PASSED
Year:
1950
75 min
60 Views


It seems a shame to waste these

after the awful strain we've all been under.

Break the tension?

Skip.

- Skip.

- Ready? Well, listen carefully.

Sudden lightning last night...

...blasting from the guns

of Terminal City's police...

...wrote an epitaph to Gunther Wyckoff,

the mad killer...

...who held six hostages terrified

in a bar...

...for over three-quarters of an hour.

Wyckoff, who escaped

from the state asylum had overrun...

All right, on your way. Break it up.

Party's over.

Come on, break it up, come on.

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John Monks Jr.

John Cherry Monks Jr. (February 24, 1910 – December 10, 2004) was an author, actor, playwright, screenwriter, director, and a U.S. Marine. more…

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