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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.Based in part on the 1927 short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway, [3] it focuses on an insurance detective's investigation into the execution by two professional killers of a former boxer who was unresistant to his ...
The Killers (Russian: Убийцы, translit. Ubiytsy) is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. [1] The film is based on the short story The Killers by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1927. [2]
"The Wait" ("La espera" in Spanish) (1950), a short story by Jorge Luis Borges that reinterprets its meaning; The Killers, a short film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksandr Gordon, and Marika Beiku; The Killers (1959), a television special starring Ingemar Johansson, Dean Stockwell, and Diane Baker on CBS's Buick-Electra Playhouse
This documentary offers a chilling look at one of the most prolific serial killers of our time: John Wayne Gacy. By day, Gacy was a well-respected community member and amused local children as a ...
There is an argument to be made that Natural Born Killers is the most misunderstood mainstream movie ever released. “Oliver Stone is a director who, barring Nolan and maybe a few others, is the ...
With the 1994 film newly available in a three-disc Collector's Edition from Shout! Studios, it's a good time to look back at this artifact of the '90s culture wars.
Confessions of a Serial Killer; Conspiracy of Silence (1991 film) The Counterfeiters (2007 film) Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story; Crime File; Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly; Crime of the Century (1996 film) Cropsey (film) Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann; Curse of the Zodiac
Two main types of crime films were released during the period: the gangster picture and the prison film. A triumvirate of gangster pictures were released in the early 1930s— Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932)—which were built on the template created by the first gangster movie, 1927's Underworld .