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Average rating: (72%)
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3.5
 
Starring: Angie Dickinson | Ava Gardner | Burt Lancaster | Edmond O'Brien | John Cassavetes | Lee Marvin
Director: Don Siegel | Robert Siodmak
Studio: UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK
Run time: 195 mins
Certificate: PG
User collections: Noir | My Top 20 | Cinema Fatale
Genres: Drama
Languages: English
Released: 29/10/2007

Brief synopsis of 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?

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Rated - 5 starsHard-boiled par excellence.....

Carl Anderson from UK , 11/06/2007

Wow - superb. A film noir played mostly in flashback. Burt Lancaster is razor sharp as a fighter-turned-thug, Ava Gardner is icy cold as the femme fatale, Edmond O'Brien is the dogged insurance investigator and William Conrad plays one of the hitmen of the title. The film is based on a Hemmingway short story. It was also cut very cleverly into Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid. See it.

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Rated - 4 starsFantastic Film Noir

A customer from Hackney , 01/10/2007

This has all of the elements of a classic film noir present and correct - femme fatale, double-crossing, twisty plot and a dark, hard-bitten atmosphere. All of the characters are good and Ava Gardner's schemer is brilliant. The plot is fantastic and you are drawn in immediately from the very beginning. I love this film and I would like to see anything else that is like it.

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Rated - 3 starsA killing explained

Paul Thompson from King's Lynn , 25/02/2007

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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Rated - 4 starsgood

A customer from Carway , 03/07/2008

A good film right from the opening scene ,good pacing, script, acting, keeps your attention all the way through

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