The Killers (1946)

Review: The Killers (1946)

Director: Robert Siodmak

Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene,

Edmond O'Brien
Edmond O'Brien
Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster
Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner
Albert Dekker
Albert Dekker
Sam Levene
Sam Levene

Plot: Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

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Criterion Blu-ray review: <i>The Killers</i> (1946/1964)

Criterion Blu-ray review: The Killers (1946/1964)

Criterion’s Blu-ray of The Killers, with two excellent new hi-def transfers of the 1946 Robert Siodmak and 1964 Don Siegel versions of Ernest Hemingway’s short story, as well as Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1956 student film, is a […]

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