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  • Title: Killers , The (1946, 1956, 1964) (Criterion #176) [Ernest Hemingway's The Killers]
  • Summary: Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and an investigator uncovers his past involvement with beautiful a woman.
  • Director: Robert Siodmak
  • Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene
  • Studio: Universal Pictures
  • Year: 1946
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  • Keywords: Film Noir
  • Format: DVD
  • Relation: A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway vs. Callaghan, Snows of Kilimanjaro, Spanish Earth, To Have and Have Not
  • Language: English
  • Country: USA / Russia USSR
  • Comments: Three versions of the Ernest Hemingway story. The DVD includes includes Andrei Tarkovsky's 1956 student film version of "The Killers," the 1949 radio adaptation, Stacey Keach reading the Hemingway short story, still photographs, biographies, press book, advertisement, trailers for Robert Siodmak films, an essay by Paul Schrader ("Notes on Film Noir") and an essay by Jonathan Lehtem ("Motherless Brooklyn"). The 1964 version is 93 minutes, colour and includes comments by actor Clu Gulager, excerpts from Don Siegel's autobiography about the making of the film, production correspondence from Don Siegel, photographs, biographies, advertisements and an essay by Geoffrey O'Brien ("Hardboiled America") New York Times 1000 Films
  • Collection: Crime
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  • Director: Andrei Tarkovsky, Marika Veiku, Aleksandr Gordon
  • Cast: Yuli Fait, Aleksandr Gordon, Valentin Vinogradov, Vadim Novikov, Yuri Dubrovin, Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Country: Russia Soviet Union USSR
  • Format: DVD