Loophole is a 1954 American film noir crime drama starring Barry Sullivan and Dorothy Malone.

[1] It was shot in black-and-white and produced by Allied Artists Pictures, a company that generally specialized in B-movies.

A man posing as a bank examiner steals $50,000 from teller Mike Donovan's cash drawer.

Because Donovan does not immediately report the shortage after he discovers it, he is accused of theft and fired by the bank.

This slip-up is why Mike becomes a noir protagonist, though he doesn't have the dark side to his character this genre usually calls for...[and] his life turns into hell when, even though he is not charged with anything, the bonding company that must insure him cancels his certification and the bank is forced to fire him.