Film

The Killers

1946 · 1h 43m · Crime · Mystery · Thriller

She's a match for any mobster!

IMDb

7.7

Rotten Tomatoes

100%

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

Edmond O'Brien

Jim Reardon

Burt Lancaster

'Swede' Andersen

Ava Gardner

Kitty Collins

Albert Dekker

Big Jim Colfax

Sam Levene

Lt. Sam Lubinsky

Vince Barnett

Charleston

Virginia Christine

Lilly Harmon Lubinsky

Jack Lambert

'Dum-Dum' Clarke

Charles D. Brown

Packy Robinson - Ole's Manager

Donald MacBride

R.S. Kenyon

Charles McGraw

Al

William Conrad

Max

Jeff Corey

Blinky Franklin (uncredited)

Gino Corrado

Restaurant Chef (uncredited)

Frank McLure

Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

Howard Freeman

Brentwood Police Chief (uncredited)

• Robert SiodmakDirector
• Anthony VeillerScreenplay
• John HustonWriter
• Richard BrooksWriter
• Ernest HemingwayNovel
• Mark HellingerProducer
• Elwood BredellDirector of Photography
• Miklós RózsaOriginal Music Composer
• Arthur HiltonEditor

Original Trailer

Release date

August 30, 1946

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

12 — Legal Drugs, Violence

Genres

Crime, Mystery, Thriller

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