Killers, The Dvd
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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: DVD
Year: 1946
Director: Robert Siodmak
Genre: Crime
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien
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Language: English
Release Date: 2015-07-07
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Ernest Hemingway’s simple but gripping short tale “The Killers” is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak, in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style and launch the acting careers of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner; and Don Siegel, in a brutal 1964 version, starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, and John Cassavetes, that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is poetic and shadowy, the second direct and harsh as daylight, but both get at the heart of Hemingway’s existential classic.