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The Killers (1946)

Directed by Robert Siodmak

Crime | Drama | Film Noir

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Overview

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.

Length 103 minutes

Actors

Edmond O'Brien | Burt Lancaster | Ava Gardner | Albert Dekker | Sam Levene | Vince Barnett | Virginia Christine | Jack Lambert | Charles D. Brown | Donald MacBride | Charles McGraw | William Conrad | Jeff Corey | Gino Corrado | Frank McLure | Howard Freeman | Charles Middleton | Queenie Smith | Jack Cheatham | William Ruhl | Ernie Adams | George Anderson | Sam Ash | Frank Baker | Oliver Cross | Sam Harris | Jack Lomas | Jack Tornek | John Sheehan | Brooks Benedict | Mike Lally | John Berkes | Edward Biby | Robert Haines | George Hoagland | Florence Wix | Harry Brown | Phil Brown | James Conaty | Noel Cravat | Neal Dodd | Mike Donovan | Dick Gordon | Nolan Leary | Michael Hale | Harry Hayden | Mark Hellinger | Al Hill | Jimmie Horan | Kenner G. Kemp | Paul Kruger | Ethan Laidlaw | Perc Launders | Howard Negley | Vera Lewis | Therese Lyon | John Miljan | Garry Owen | Beatrice Roberts | Wally Rose | Wallace Scott | Ann Staunton | Milton Wallace | Bill Walker

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Viewing Notes

A really good film noir.  Burt Lancaster’s first film, which made both him and Ava Gardner stars.

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