Fresh
Taken from Ernest Hemingway's story of the same title, picture is a hard-hitting example of forthright melodrama in the best Hemingway style. Performances without exception are top quality.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Killers
She's a match for any mobster!
1946 · 1h 43m · Approved
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Robert Siodmak
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The Killers
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.
Director and cast
- Robert Siodmak Director
- 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
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
97%
Tomatometer
Fresh
An example of film noir at its most expressive.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Fresh
It's one of the great films of disenchantment.
Wally Hammond, Time Out
Fresh
As mere movie melodrama, pieced out as a mystery which is patiently unfolded by a sleuthing insurance man, it makes a diverting picture.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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