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The Killers
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.
1946 · Directed by Robert Siodmak · 103 min · Crime · Mystery · Thriller · 17 frames
Tagline
She's a match for any mobster!
Crew
- Screenplay: Anthony Veiller
- Written by: John Huston, Richard Brooks
- Cinematography: Elwood Bredell
- Edited by: Arthur Hilton
- Music: Miklós Rózsa
- Produced by: Mark Hellinger
Cast
- Edmond O'Brien as Jim Reardon
- Burt Lancaster as 'Swede' Andersen
- Ava Gardner as Kitty Collins
- Albert Dekker as Big Jim Colfax
- Sam Levene as Lt. Sam Lubinsky
- Vince Barnett as Charleston
- Virginia Christine as Lilly Harmon Lubinsky
- Jack Lambert as 'Dum-Dum' Clarke
- Charles D. Brown as Packy Robinson - Ole's Manager
- Donald MacBride as R.S. Kenyon
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Universal International Pictures
- Themes: small town, new jersey, gas station, boxer, heist, femme fatale, film noir, murder, black and white, attempted robbery
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