The Killers
Ernest Hemingway's gripping short story "The Killers" has fascinated readers and filmmakers for generations. Its first screen incarnation came in 1946, when director Robert Siodmak unleashed The Killers, helping to define the film noir style and launching the careers of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner in this archetypal masterpiece
Special Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Andrei Tarkovsky’s short film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Killers,” made when he was a student in 1956
- Interview from 2002 with writer Stuart M. Kaminsky
- Screen Directors’ Playhouse radio adaptation from 1949, starring Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters
- Audio recording from 2002 of actor Stacy Keach reading Hemingway’s short story
- Trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by novelist Jonathan Lethem
Available In
Collector's Set
Collector's Set
Special Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- Andrei Tarkovsky’s short film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Killers,” made when he was a student in 1956
- Interview from 2002 with writer Stuart M. Kaminsky
- Screen Directors’ Playhouse radio adaptation from 1949, starring Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters
- Audio recording from 2002 of actor Stacy Keach reading Hemingway’s short story
- Trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by novelist Jonathan Lethem
Cast
- Burt Lancaster
- The Swede
- Ava Gardner
- Kitty Collins
- Edmond O'Brien
- Jim Reardon
- Albert Dekker
- Big Jim Colfax
- Sam Levene
- Lieutenant Sam Lubinsky
- Vince Barnett
- Charleston
- Virginia Christine
- Lilly Harmon Lubinsky
- Jack Lambert
- Dum-Dum Clarke
- Jeff Corey
- Blinky Franklin
- Charles D. Brown
- Packy Robinson
- Donald MacBride
- R. S. Kenyon
- Charles McGraw
- Al
- William Conrad
- Max
- Phil Brown
- Nick Adams
Credits
- Director
- Robert Siodmak
- Produced by
- Mark Hellinger
- Music
- Miklós Rózsa
- “The More I Know of Love” Lyrics
- Jack Brooks
- Film editor
- Arthur Hilton
- Art direction
- Jack Otterson
- Art direction
- Martin Obzina
- Director of photography
- Woody Bredell
- Screenplay
- Anthony Veiller
- From the story by
- Ernest Hemingway
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