Retrospective 2016
The Killers
Die Killer
Robert Siodmak
USA 1946
101 min
V'16
THE KILLERS is a powerful movie without a relaxing moment. It is concerned with Pittsburgh gunmen and is predominantly a matter of shocking events in great number – avarice, homicide, gunmen being searched for rods, killers being stalked by detectives – with a minimum of concern for personalities. This film pounds home, how relentlessly crooks and the people associated with them – insurance investigators, cops, sweethearts – pursue their jobs. Besides its brutality, it has the noise, the jagged, tormenting movement of keyed-up, tough, flashy humanity that you get from a walk through Times Square. (Manny Farber, 1946)
With UBIJCY
Credits
- Burt Lancaster - Ole ‘Swede’ Anderson
- Ava Gardner - Kitty Collins
- Edmond O’Brien - Jim Reardon
- Albert Dekker - Big Jim Colfax
- Anthony Veiller
- Elwood Bredell
- Arthur Hilton
- Miklós Rózsa
- Russell A. Gausman
Universal Pictures
35 mm
bw
