There's more than one way to kill a man!
A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away.
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Grave, spare, classical in form and bleak.
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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“Is Lee Marvin the best thing in The Killers?”
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- John Chardon TMDB · Feb 20198/10
The only man who isn't afraid of dying is dead already. The Killers is directed by Don Siegel and adapted to screenplay by Gene L. Coon from the short story written by Ernest Hemmingway. It stars Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Clu Gulager, John Cassavetes, Ronald Reagan and Claude Akins. Music is by John Williams and cinematography by Richard L. Rawlings. Hit men Charlie (Marvin) and Lee (Gulager) enter a school for the blind and gun down motor mechanic teacher Johnny North (Cassavetes). He doesn't resist. Why? This question bothers Charlie and he sets about finding out... It's difficult when reading the name The Killers to not think of the 1946 film made by Robert Siodmak, a film that is revered as one of the quintessential movies of film noir. But Don Siegel's film, a re-jigging of the plot, is well worthy of consideration as quintessential neo-noir. Originally slated to be the first made for TV movie as part of a new era for movies on television, the film was pulled by NBC for being too violent. With the film also featuring a murder by sniper scene, the recent assassination of John F. Kennedy by sniper ensured The Killers was temporarily on unsafe ground. With Ronald Reagan making
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Cast
- Lee MarvinCharlie Strom
- Angie DickinsonSheila Farr
- John CassavetesJohnny North
- Clu GulagerLee
- Claude AkinsEarl Sylvester
- Norman FellMickey Farmer
- Ronald ReaganJack Browning
- Virginia ChristineMiss Watson
- Don HaggertyMail Truck Driver
- Robert PhillipsGeorge
Crew
- Don SiegelDirector
- Gene L. CoonScreenplay
- Ernest HemingwayNovel
- Richard L. RawlingsDirector of Photography
- John WilliamsOriginal Music Composer
- Richard BeldingEditor
- Don SiegelProducer
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