SYNOPSIS: Ernest Hemingway’s gripping short story “The Killers” has fascinated readers and filmmakers for generations. Its first screen incarnation came in 1946, when director Robert Siodmak unleashed The Killers, helping to define the film noir style and launching the careers of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner in this archetypal masterpiece
| The Swede | Burt Lancaster |
| Kitty Collins | Ava Gardner |
| Jim Reardon | Edmond O'Brien |
| Big Jim Colfax | Albert Dekker |
| Lieutenant Sam Lubinsky | Sam Levine |
| Charleston | Vince Barnett |
| Lilly Harmon Lubinsky | Virginia Christine |
| Dum Dum Clarke | Jack Lambert |
| Director | Robert Siodmak |
| Producer | Mark Hellinger |
| Music | Miklós Rózsa |
| Editing | Arthur Hilton |
| Art direction | Jack Otterson and Martin Obzina |
| Cinematography | Woody Bredell |
| Screenplay | Anthony Veiller |
| From the short story by | Ernest Hemingway |
By February 17, 2003
The Killers is exemplary film noir from Robert Siodmak, who, on the strength of three films—this, Criss Cross, and Phantom Lady—stands beside fellow German exiles Lang and Preminger as one of noir’s crucial Read more »
June 04, 2010
He may not be a household name like Fritz Lang or Billy Wilder, but Robert Siodmak is renowned in some circles as one of the most important film noir directors, and his 1946 Burt Lancaster–Ava Gardner Read more »
