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Killer Elite is a 2011 action thriller film directed by Gary McKendry and stars Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro. The film is based on the 1991 novel The Feather Men by Ranulph Fiennes .
The Killer Elite was released on DVD by MGM on April 1, 2003, as a French Blu-ray by Wild Side (under license from MGM) in 2013 and as a limited-edition Blu-ray by Twilight Time in the U.S. that includes a rare 1966 television adaptation of Noon Wine directed by Peckinpah for ABC-TV's Studio 67.
Silliphant made her film debut in Sam Peckinpah’s The Killer Elite (1975), co-written by her husband, screenwriter Stirling Silliphant. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, she appeared in films and television, including the mini-series Pearl (1978) and the TV movie Fly Away Home (1981), which explored the human cost of the Vietnam War. [9]
The book tells the story of four British Army soldiers, including two members of the Special Air Service, who are assassinated by a hit squad known as "The Clinic".The murders are carried out over a 17-year period, on the orders of a Dubai sheikh whose three sons were killed by British forces in Oman during a battle with Communist guerrillas.
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The battle is briefly depicted in the 2011 film Killer Elite, where it is central to the plot. The film is based on Fiennes' fictional book. The battle is also mentioned by Frederick Forsyth in his book The Veteran, where a member of the SAS team is murdered by two criminals 30 years after the engagement.
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Killer Elite: the Hits, the Highs, the Vids (2016), by British band DragonForce Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Killer Elite .