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The Killers is a 1946 American film noir starring Burt Lancaster (in his film debut), Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, and Sam Levene.Based in part on the 1927 short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway, [3] it focuses on an insurance detective's investigation into the execution by two professional killers of a former boxer who was unresistant to his own murder.
Mar 27, 2015 · These formal and thematic concerns dominate the loose crime trilogy that Siodmak produced in the immediate postwar period. Adapted uncredited by John Huston from an Ernest Hemingway story, The Killers (1946) became known as the ‘Citizen Kane of noir’ on account of the intricate network of flashbacks that allow insurance investigator Edmond O’B rien to discover the role that Ava Gardner ...
Apr 2, 2019 · Robert Siodmak's Phantom Lady (1944) and The Killers (1946) are showing in March and April, 2019 on MUBI in many countries around the world. The Killers. There’s a long-told apocryphal story about German-born silent film star Emil Jannings. He was the first-ever winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1929.
Jul 6, 2015 · The Killers (1946) is exemplary film noir from Robert Siodmak, who, on the strength of three films—this, Phantom Lady (1944), and Criss Cross (1949)—stands beside his fellow European exiles Fritz Lang and Otto Preminger as one of noir’s crucial directors. The film is as nested with weird resonances as it is glamorous with obvious pleasures: Ava Gardner as lush and irresistible as a femme ...
Dec 2, 2003 · Other critics, most notably J. Greco in his analysis of Siodmak’s noir cycle, The File on Robert Siodmak in Hollywood: 1941–1951, suggest that Siodmak’s birthplace was Dresden and that his American birthplace was a myth used by the director to obtain a visa in Paris .
The Spiral Staircase: Directed by Robert Siodmak. With Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith. In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.
