Director: Robert Siodam
Duration: 92mins
Content:
The Killers, a relentless search through the back alleys of a dead man's past, is a brilliant movie. (Liberty Magazine) It opens with an Ernest Hemingway short story in which Burt Lancaster, amking his film debut, plays Swede, a broken-down ex-fighter waiting in a sleazy room to be assassinated. He does not resist when two mem empty their guns into him. It becomes the job of insurance investigator Edmond O'Brien to discover why Swede had given up. He pieces together an elaborate look at a man who became the fall guy for gangsters and a seductive, unscrupulous woman (Ava Gardner). A taut Miklos Rozsa score (with a theme later used in Dragnet), an Anthony veiller screenplay (with, uncredited, John Huston), and the brilliant artistry of director Robert Siodmak make this a stunning tale of cross and double-cross. There is not a dull moment....nothing but menacing acton managed with supreme competen
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