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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. [3]
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.
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.
Loosely-based on a true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world's most elite operatives--Danny, a ruthless killer-for-hire (Jason Statham); and Hunter, his longtime mentor (Robert De Niro)--against the cunning leader of a secret society of former Special Air Service operatives (Clive Owen).
The Killer Elite. Action. 122 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1975. Roger Ebert. January 1, 1975. 3 min read. Sam Peckinpah’s “The Killer Elite” is directed and acted with a certain nice style, but it puts us through so many convolutions of the plot that finally we just don’t care.
The Killer Elite. 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...
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Loosely-based on a true story, Killer Elite pits two of the world's most elite operatives--Danny, a ruthless killer-for-hire ( Jason Statham ); and Hunter, his longtime mentor ( Robert De Niro )--against the cunning leader of a secret society of former Special Air Service operatives (Clive Owen).
Woot! 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.
Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames.
Sep 21, 2011 · “Killer Elite” is inspired by a story that ingeniously finds a way to explain why two teams of ex-SAS men would want to kill each other. That doubles the possibilities for casting, and here Jason Statham and Clive Owen, who in fact have no reason to dislike each other, are engaged in a deadly game of international murder.
