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The Killers is a 1946 film noir directed by Robert Siodmak, based on Ernest Hemingway's short story. The film stars Burt Lancaster in his debut role as a former boxer who becomes the target of contract killers. Ava Gardner plays his mysterious love interest.
Jul 20, 2024 · The Killers is one of the best crime movies of the 1940s, with a 100% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes. Hemingway's ability to master large ideas in brief stories is evident in The Killers. The 1946 film version adds mystery and suspense to Hemingway's story, making it a worthwhile and gripping watch. In the 1940s, famous author Ernest ...
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Strong supporting performances by the great Albert Dekker as the top hood and Sam Levine as a cop with a heart of gold. And we cannot forget Charles McGraw and William Conrad as two of the most frightening cold blooded killers in film history.
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Robert Siodmak’s The Killers is a thing of formal beauty—a significant title in our blossoming awareness of collected stylistics that are now called “film noir.” The blacks of this transfer are rich and luscious, which is of great importance to a film that’s essentially a painting of shadows. Whites can be a little shrill on occasion, but it’s not ...
These are the same supplements that were included in the DVD that Criterion issued in 2003, with the exception of the disappointing absence of Paul Schrader’s “Notes on Film Noir.” Otherwise, this is still a wonderful package that justifies the carry-over into Blu-ray. The most significant inclusion, of course, is Andrei Tarkovsky’s adaptation of t...
There are no new supplements on hand, but Criterion’s beautiful assemblage of all things Killers-related remains a vital packaging of several flawed, intense, historically notable noirs.
The Killers: Directed by Robert Siodmak. With Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker. Hit men arrive in a small New Jersey town to kill an unresisting victim, and insurance investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Robert Siodmak
- 1946-08-30
Jun 15, 2015 · The film opens in an instant with two lurking gunmen entering a diner in a small New Jersey town called Brentwood. Their target is a washed up boxer called “The Swede” and we do not know why, but after terrorizing a few locals, they riddle him with bullet holes and that’s the end of it.
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