The Killers
Studio: Universal-International
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien
Director: Robert Siodmak
Writer: Anthony Veiller, John Huston, Richard Brooks
Producer: Mark Hellinger
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.
Trivia
- Selected for the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
- Also nominated for: Academy Award for Best Director; Academy Award for Best Film Editing; Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay; Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score.
- Based on The Killers (short story by Ernest Hemingway).
- The first 12 minutes of the film, showing the arrival of the two contract killers Al (Charles McGraw) and Max (William Conrad) and the murder of Ole "Swede" Anderson (Burt Lancaster), is a close adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1927 short story in Scribner's Magazine.
- The rest of the film, showing Jim Riordan (Edmond O'Brien)'s investigation of the murder, is wholly original.
- Producer Mark Hellinger paid $36,750 for the screen rights to Hemingway's story, his first independent production.
Previous Showings
2 Runs • 1 Festival
2,334 tickets sold
All runs on record (2):
- March 13 - 16, 1997 · 1,406 ticketsw/ This Gun for Hire, State Fair (1946)
- October 26 - 27, 2024 · 928 ticketsFilm Noir plus Val Lewtonw/ The Blue Dahlia