The Killers (1964) [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Lee Marvin Angie Dickinson John Cassavetes Clu Gulager Claude Akins
	Video by:	Universal Studios
	Sales Rank:	30226

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Actor(s):
Lee Marvin
Angie Dickinson
John Cassavetes
Clu Gulager
Claude Akins

Creators:
Richard L. Rawlings (Cinematographer)
Don Siegel (Producer)
Richard Belding (Editor)
Ernest Hemingway (Writer)
Gene L. Coon (Writer)

Director(s):
Don Siegel

Recording label: Universal Studios
EAN: 9781558802339
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 1558802339
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC,
Release Date: 1995-02-28
Universal product code (UPC): 096895501432
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)

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As with its 1946 predecessor of the same title and directed by noir maestro Robert Siodmak, this version of The Killers makes much ado out of Ernest Hemingway's classic short story of two hit men who shake up a diner while looking for their prey. Hemingway's sketch took up perhaps the first six minutes of Siodmak's film, and everything after that was an add-on. This 1964 remake (of sorts) by Don Siegel builds another whole world around Hemingway's narrow if intense premise. The two assassins of Siegel's film (Clu Gulager, Lee Marvin) go in search of their intended victim--a teacher (John Cassavetes) at a school for the blind--and find that he not only recognizes his fate when they show up, but seems entirely resigned to it. Curiosity leads the killers to seek out the party who hired them and discover why Cassavetes's character didn't run or fight. Soon the facts tumble into place: the dead man had once been a top-drawer racer who fell for a glamorous woman (Angie Dickinson), the latter gradually pulling him into the orbit of a criminal villain (a convincingly evil Ronald Reagan). Once Gulager and Marvin's characters realize there is an unrecovered stash of money to be found, the film becomes increasingly dark and dangerous. Originally shot for television but rejected for its violence, Siegel's film is a blistering experience of swimming against the currents of fate for one's survival--and losing. --Tom Keogh

Running time: 93 minutes