Killers
The Killers (1946): Uses Ernest Hemingway's classic short story as a jumping-off point for an intense, hard-edged, and stylish tale of robbery, unrequited love, double-crosses, and brutal betrayal. The Killers (1964): Two hired killers muscle their way into a school for the blind and terrorize the secretary until she reveals .. Read more
| Starring | Angie Dickinson, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Edmond O'Brien |
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| Director | Don Siegel, Robert Siodmak |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
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Killers
The Killers (1946): Uses Ernest Hemingway's classic short story as a jumping-off point for an intense, hard-edged, and stylish tale of robbery, unrequited love, double-crosses, and brutal betrayal.
The Killers (1964): Two hired killers muscle their way into a school for the blind and terrorize the secretary until she reveals the whereabouts of racecar driver Johnny North. When the gunmen track him down, Johnny wordlessly accepts his fate with the passivity of a man already dead. Why?
| Starring | Angie Dickinson, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Edmond O'Brien, John Cassavetes, Lee Marvin |
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| Director | Don Siegel, Robert Siodmak |
| Studio | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK |
| Run time | DVD: 3 hrs 15 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: not available |
| Format | DVD |
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A killing explained
The Killers tells the story of why a man (Burt Lancaster) is tracked down by two hired killers and shot dead. Edmund O'Brien plays an insurance investigator who uncovers an armed robbery and a tale of betrayal and double-cross. The story is told largely in flashback from a number of perspectives, and with the talents on display should be better. However it seems to lack something; maybe it's the central implausibility of why an insurance investigator should be looking into matters that would surely be the province of the police, maybe it's Ava Gardner as the femme fatale (not an actress that I ever rated much), maybe the plot is just too confusing. Nonetheless it still deserves its reputation as one of the best of the 40s film noirs that helped define the genre/style.
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A killing explained
The Killers tells the story of why a man (Burt Lancaster) is tracked down by two hired killers and shot dead. Edmund O'Brien plays an insurance investigator who uncovers an armed robbery and a tale of betrayal and double-cross. The story is told largely in flashback from a number of perspectives, and with the talents on display should be better. However it seems to lack something; maybe it's the central implausibility of why an insurance investigator should be looking into matters that would surely be the province of the police, maybe it's Ava Gardner as the femme fatale (not an actress that I ever rated much), maybe the plot is just too confusing. Nonetheless it still deserves its reputation as one of the best of the 40s film noirs that helped define the genre/style.
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Red Cliff
- 15 Jun 2009
A mere slip of an epic at 146 minutes (you think I’m kidding, but I watched the original two-part, five-hour Asian-market version), John Woo’s first Chinese film in nearly two decades is both a triumphant homecoming and too much of a good thing. When Woo went to Hollywood in the run up to the handover of Hong Kong in the early 90s he was riding the crest of a wave: hyper romantic urban thrillers like The Killers, A Better Tomorrow and Hard Boiled had earned him a reputation as the... Read more
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