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  1. 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.

  2. 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
  3. Ernest Hemingway's gripping short story "The Killers" has fascinated readers and filmmakers for generations. Its first screen incarnation came in 1946, when director Robert Siodmak unleashed The Killers, helping to define the film noir style and launching the careers of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner in this archetypal masterpiece

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  4. 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.

  5. Killers, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Go Tell The Swede After two thugs (Charles McGraw, Williiam Conrad) release George (Harry Hayden) at the diner, Nick (Phil Brown) rushes to warn Swede (Burt Lancaster), in the first scene from Robert Siodmak's The Killers, 1946, from the Hemingway story.

    • Robert Siodmak, Melville Shyer
    • Burt Lancaster
  6. Synopsis. Two hit men, Al (Charles McGraw) and Max (William Conrad), drive into Brentwood, New Jersey, in search of Pete "Swede" Lund (Burt Lancaster), and stake out a diner he frequents, questioning, among others, customer Nick Adams about Swede's whereabouts. After the men leave, Nick races to Swede's boardinghouse room to warn him and is ...

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  8. 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 ...

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