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The Killer Elite
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. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.
1975 · Directed by Sam Peckinpah · 122 min · Crime · Action · Thriller · 10 frames
Tagline
They protect us from the enemy, but who protects us from them?
Crew
- Screenplay: Marc Norman, Stirling Silliphant
- Cinematography: Philip H. Lathrop
- Edited by: Monte Hellman, Tony de Zarraga
- Music: Jerry Fielding
- Production design: Ted Haworth
- Produced by: Martin Baum, Arthur Lewis
Cast
- James Caan as Mike Locken
- Robert Duvall as George Hansen
- Arthur Hill as Cap Collis
- Bo Hopkins as Jerome Miller
- Mako as Yuen Chung
- Burt Young as Mac
- Gig Young as Lawrence Weyburn
- Tom Clancy as O'Leary
- Tiana Alexandra as Tommie
- Walter Kelley as Walter
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English, Mandarin
- Studios: United Artists, Persky-Bright Productions, Baum/Dantine Productions, Exeter Associates
- Budget: $5,000,000
- Box office: $1,000,000
- Themes: kung fu, central intelligence agency (cia), hitman, traitor, revenge, betrayal
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