The Killers (1946) Colorized | Crime | Noir | Drama | Ernest Hemingway

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After a couple of hit men kill a gas station attendant (Burt Lancaster) who apparently was expecting them, an insurance investigator (Edmond O'Brien) pursues the case and uncovers a complex backstory of treachery and crime linked to a mysterious femme fatale (Ava Gardner). Based on a story by Ernest Hemingway.

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede" (Burt Lancaster). 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 (Edmond O'Brien), 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 (Ava Gardner) who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man (Albert Dekker).
Release date: August 28, 1946 (USA)
Director: Robert Siodmak
Screenplay: Robert Siodmak, Anthony Veiller, Richard Brooks, John Huston
Cinematography: Elwood Bredell
Story by: Ernest Hemingway
Distributed by: Universal Pictures

Cast:
Burt Lancaster as Ole 'Swede' Anderson
Ava Gardner as Kitty Collins
Edmond O'Brien as Jim Reardon
Albert Dekker as Big Jim Colfax
Sam Levene as Police 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
Donald MacBride as R.S. Kenyon
Charles McGraw as Al
William Conrad as Max

Wiki:
The Killers is a 1946 American film noir directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Burt Lancaster in his film debut, along with Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien and Sam Levene. Based in part on the 1927 short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway,[3] it focuses on an insurance detective's investigation into the execution by two professional killers of a former boxer who was unresistant to his own murder. The screenplay was written by Anthony Veiller, with uncredited contributions by John Huston and Richard Brooks.

Released in August 1946, The Killers was a critical and commercial success, earning four Academy Award nominations, including for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Hemingway, who was habitually disgusted with how Hollywood distorted his thematic intentions, was an open admirer of the film. It is widely regarded as one of the classics of the film noir genre.

In 2008, The Killers was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

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The Killers 1946 colorized (Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner)
by Mark Hellinger Productions

Publication date 1946
Topics feature film, crime drama, film noir, colorized
Language English
Item Size 716.5M

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