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Update · Robert Siodmak’sTHE KILLERS
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Starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner
(1946, Robert Siodmak) Gas jockey/boxer Burt Lancaster (in his debut) holes up in a small darkish room awaiting his personal assassins – to this point so good, from Hemingway’s traditional story – however then insurance coverage dick Edmond O’Brien groups up with cop Sam Levene to dig up all of the scheming, and double-crossing – and sultry Ava Gardner – that bought him there. DCP restoration. Approx. 103 min.
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Reviews
“THE CITIZEN KANE OF CRIME MOVIES.”
– Eddie Muller
“LANCASTER’S FIRST AND PROBABLY BEST PERFORMANCE!”
– Pauline Kael
“A prime example of Film Noir… its evocation of morbid atmosphere and in the sheer bravura of its staging have seldom if ever been surpassed.”
– John Russell Taylor
“Includes one of the most memorable set pieces in forties cinema: the robbery sequence filmed in one lone swooping crane take, the camera diving and panning like a demented bird. But it is the creation of the violent, alienated, amoral world that is the film’s most important achievement.”
– Christopher Lambert
“The splintered chronology, the flashbacks presented from multiple points of view, and the flashbacks within flashbacks, all have a crucial impact on both the mood and the meaning of the story… Swede is one of the most elusive of Noir’s anti-heroes, Kitty one of the genre’s most masked spider women; and the film’s own devious structure, its conflicting points of view, its choppy handling of time, reinforce the enigmatic aura that enshrouds the two main characters.”
– Foster Hirsch