Cool Killer Karl

A dangerous criminal's future is uncertain when he traps a family during a police standoff. The intense situation becomes a deep look into a man who has lived apart from others, without love or care, until a child's gentle act reveals his painful history.

The fate of a notorious killer hangs in the balance after he takes a family hostage in a police siege. The tension-filled standoff gives way to a gripping psychological study of the man who has lived on the edge of society, cut off from human warmth and affection, until a child’s kindness shows his troubled past.

Brandishing two loaded .44s, a man described as “very young, very calm, very cool,” stages a series of holdups at bars, usually near closing time. Twice the police seem to have him trapped, but twice he shoots his way out, killing one officer in the process. But he’s no match for Mrs. Shirley Cable, a mother of two young children and, by profession, a guidance counselor with an uncanny talent for handling all types of people—even killers.