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Aug 18, 2011 · Based on a true story, Killer Elite races across the globe from Australia to Paris, London and the Middle East in the action-packed account of an ex-special ...
James Caan and Robert Duvall star in Sam Peckinpah's tense, action-packed thriller that explores savagery and betrayal in the murky world of killers-for-hire.
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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.
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Mike Locken and George Hansen are longtime friends and professional partners, agents of Communications Integrity (ComTeg), a private intelligence agency that handles covert assignments for the CIA. At the end of their latest assignment, Hansen betrays Locken by killing their client and shooting Locken in the knee and elbow, effectively "retiring" h...
The Killer Elite was based on the novel Monkey in the Middle(later republished under the film's title) by Robert Syd Hopkins under the pseudonym Robert Rostand. Sam Peckinpah was assigned to direct The Killer Elite by United Artists head Mike Medavoy, who believed in Peckinpah's abilities but knew that it was virtually impossible for Peckinpah to o...
Richard Eder of The New York Times wrote, "Sam Peckinpah knows how to make movies but perhaps he has forgotten why. At least that is the feeling given by this bag of mixed, often damp fireworks about the alienation of people who do dirty tricks for the Central Intelligence Agency and discover that the tricks as well as the dirt are on them." Roger ...
The Killer Elite was released on DVD by MGM on April 1, 2003, as a French Blu-ray by Wild Side (under license from MGM) in 2013 and as a limited-edition Blu-ray by Twilight Time in the U.S. that includes a rare 1966 television adaptation of Noon Wine directed by Peckinpah for ABC-TV's Studio 67. The Twilight Time release also features an isolated s...
The Killer Elite at the American Film Institute CatalogThe Killer Elite at IMDbThe Killer Elite at Rotten Tomatoes- December 17, 1975 (New York)
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Killer Elite is a 2011 action thriller film starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro. The film is based on the 1991 novel The Feather Men by Sir Ranulph Fiennes and is directed by Gary McKendry .
Sep 23, 2011 · Killer Elite: Directed by Gary McKendry. With Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Robert De Niro, Dominic Purcell. When his mentor is taken captive by a disgraced Arab sheik, a killer-for-hire is forced into action.
