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The Killer Elite is a 1975 American action thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and written by Marc Norman and Stirling Silliphant, adapted from the Robert Syd Hopkins novel Monkey in the Middle.
Dec 19, 1975 · The Killer Elite: Directed by Sam Peckinpah. With James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill, Bo Hopkins. Mike Locken, who works for a private security firm affiliated with the C.I.A., is betrayed by his partner and left apparently crippled for life.
- (7.2K)
- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Sam Peckinpah
- 1975-12-19
The cop, foolishly brave, races away to throw the bomb into the bay, and our heroes escape but, curiously, Peckinpah never gives the scene a proper payoff. It's been one of the best moments in his movie, but he lets it die.
The Killer Elite. James Caan (the Godfather) and Robert Duvall (Apocalypse Now) star in Sam Peckinpah's tense, action-packed thriller that explores savagery and betrayal in the murky world of killers-for-hire. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. James Caan (the Godfather) and Robert Duvall ...
- 123 min
Aug 8, 2020 · THE KILLER ELITE – REVIEW BY PAULINE KAEL. Peckinpah's "The Killer Elite" is intensely, claustrophobically exciting, with combat scenes of martial-arts teams photographed in slow motion and then edited in such brief cuts that the fighting is nightmarishly concentrated—almost subliminal.
Friends George Hansen (Robert Duvall) and Mike Locken (James Caan) are hit men who do contract jobs for a company called Com-Teg, associated with the CIA. Bu, when George gets a better offer from...
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- Action
- PG
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Sep 10, 2012 · After a brilliantly cryptic opening, The Killer Elite settles into Peckinpah's most apparently straightforward action film since The Getaway. Built around the internal politics of a San...
