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In the case of The Killers, the dead man, known as the Swede (Burt Lancaster), commits a sort of semi-suicide in the film’s first act, which itself is a stunningly composed twelve minutes of film and almost the entirety of Hemingway’s story: when two hit men (Charles McGraw, William Conrad) arrive in the small town of Brentwood and track ...
The Swede (Burt Lancaster), is an ex-prize fighter who, after he's gotten mixed up with mobsters and a double-crossing dame (Ava Gardner), waits resignedly in his small-town hotel room for two hit-men to find and kill him.
Robert Siodmak’s THE KILLERS is undeniably a classic film noir, and rightly regarded as one of the genre's best. Based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway actually credited the film for being “the only good picture ever made of a story of mine”. Delightfully engaging to watch.
Making his film debut in The Killers, Burt Lancaster, portrays Swede, a broken-down ex-fighter waiting in a sleazy room to be assassinated without resistance...
The Killers, American film noir, released in 1946, that is considered a classic of the genre. It features Burt Lancaster in his breakthrough role. The film opens with two hit men fatally shooting Pete (“Swede”) Lund (played by Lancaster). After an insurance investigator is assigned the case, Lund’s
The Killers (also known as A Man Alone) is a 1946 American film noir directed by Robert Siodmak and based in part on the 1927 short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway.
There are a few films that critics and film fans agree are classics in every sense of the word. THE KILLERS (1946) is one of these. An oft neglected, but extremely powerful film noir, it was directed by Robert Siodmak with a screenplay by Anthony Veiller from a short story by Ernest Hemmingway.
