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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 ...
With Ava Gardner in The Killers, 1946. Lancaster's first filmed movie was Desert Fury for Wallis in 1947, where Lancaster was billed after John Hodiak and Lizabeth Scott. It was directed by Lewis Allen. [9] [10] Then producer Mark Hellinger approached him to star in 1946's The Killers, which was completed and released prior to Desert Fury.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes The Bachelor's Daughters: Andrew L. Stone: Claire Trevor, Gail Russell, Ann Dvorak: Comedy: United Artists: Bad Bascomb: S. Sylvan Simon: Wallace Beery, Margaret O'Brien, Marjorie Main
The Killers (released in the UK as Ernest Hemingway's "The Killers") is a 1964 American neo noir crime film. Written by Gene L. Coon and directed by Don Siegel, it is the second Hollywood adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's 1927 short story of the same title, following the 1946 version. There is also a 1956 Russian version directed by Andrei ...
The Killers (1946 film) M. Mr. Ace; The Mysterious Mr. Valentine; N. Night Editor; P. Panique (1946 film) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946 film) S. San Quentin ...
Dekker appeared in some 70 films from the 1930s to the 1960s, but his four famous screen roles were as a mad scientist in the 1940 horror film Dr. Cyclops, as a criminal mastermind in 1946's The Killers, as a dangerous dealer in atomic fuel in the 1955 Kiss Me Deadly, and as an unscrupulous railroad detective in Sam Peckinpah's Western The Wild ...
On 27 June 1946, Muriel took the school bus home from Gowerton Grammar School. She was last seen at 2:30 p.m., singing as she headed for the one-mile walk to her family's home, Tyle-Du Farm. The path she walked home on curved in and out of the woods; her mother saw her walking home along the path and into the woods, but not come out again.
Although he worked in many genres, mostly at Universal, Bredell is best known for his film noir cinematography on such movies as Phantom Lady (1944), Lady on a Train (1945) The Killers (1946), and The Unsuspected (1947). Warner Bros. editor George Amy said Bredell could "light a football stadium with a single match". [2]