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	The Killers (short story) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"The Killers" is notable short story by Ernest Hemingway.
		The story has survived the passage of time through the writer's depiction of the human experience, his infamous use of satire, and the everlasting themes of death, friendship, and the purpose of life to become one of Hemingway's most famous and frequently anthologized short stories.
		The basic plot of the story involves a pair of criminals that enter a restaurant seeking to kill a boxer who is hiding out for reasons unnamed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Killers_(Hemingway) (245 words)

	The Killers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Killers (short story), a 1927 short story by Ernest Hemingway
		The Killers (1946 film), a film adaptation of the story starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner
		The Killers (1964 film), a film adaptation of the story starring Lee Marvin, Ronald Reagan, and Angie Dickinson
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Killers (145 words)

	Short Story Reviews and Criticism , Reference Department, Davis Library
		In those instances where an individual story may not be explicated (analyzed), it is often possible to find articles that discuss the author's themes and style more generally, and this may be relevant to discussion of the story in question.
		MLA indexes articles on individual short stories and, in cases where an individual story may not be explicated, there may be general discussion of a writer and his/her themes, style, etc. MLA attempts to provide coverage of all literatures excepting Classical Greek and Roman.
		It is sometimes possible to locate a specific short story in a collection of stories, if that collection has been cataloged to include the authors and titles of individual stories in the "Notes Field" of a bibliographic record in a library's catalog.
	www.lib.unc.edu /reference/hum/shortstory.html (1726 words)

	DVDActive - Reviews - DVD - Killers, The: Criterion Collection (US - R1)
		When a pair of killers enter a diner looking for a man they intend on “hitting” they unravel his past to find out who he is and what he's done to become so complacent about dying.
		The Hemingway story was a story about fate, and, while Siodmak’s film necessarily diverges enough to flesh the story out, the movie takes a plunge into the mystery genre.
		There is not a single line of dialogue present from the short story, though the back and forth bantering between the killers is very reminiscent of Hemmingway’s dialogue style.
	www.dvdactive.com /reviews/dvd/killers-the-criterion-collection.html (1997 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : The Killers: The Criterion Collection
		Ernest Hemingway's 1927 short story "The Killers" is short and sweet, a lean reduction by the literary master of the pulpy fiction of his contemporaries.
		Depending on the size of the print, the story usually runs seven-to-10 pages and spares no room for sentimental embroidery in its tight scenario of two hardened assassins suffering small-town innocence as they hunt a man who is resigned to be their prey.
		While reveling in the tough dialogue of Dashiel Hammett's ilk, "The Killers" is short on plot, focusing instead on small situations: on the disconnect between brutal big-city killers and small-town folk, and the psychological mystery of a victim lying in dispirited wait.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/k/killers_cc.shtml (1036 words)

	The Killers (1946)
		The Killers (1946), a neglected screen classic from director Robert Siodmak, is an intense, hard-edged, stylish film noir of robbery, unrequited love, brutal betrayal and double-cross.
		The film opens with a quintessential sequence or prologue, the one faithfully borrowed from Hemingway's short story about two hit men (the 'killers' of the film's title) seeking a doomed man in a small town.
		The pair are unsmiling, contract killers Max (William Conrad later famous for the TV detective show Cannon) and Al (Charles McGraw), sent to the small rural town to track down a Tri-State Oil Co. attendant.
	www.filmsite.org /killers.html (1788 words)

	The Killers
		Siodmak is in his element with an evocative cinematography of gloom and fluid traveling shots, including a one-shot tracking shot of a robbery.
		The dark noir streets of Siodmak have given way to the bright and garish lighting of a Hollywood studio set ("The Killers" was supposed to have been the first made-for-television feature film but ultimately deemed too violent by NBC to be given the honor).
		Siegel's nihilism explodes in the opening sequence with the hired killers, Charlie and Lee (Lee Marvin and Clu Gulager), wreaking havoc in a school for the blind (Charlie and Lee are the only ones wearing dark glasses) as they hunt down John Cassavetes and dispatch him with a few pre-Peckinpah slo-mo shots.
	www.mediascreen.com /k/killers.htm (421 words)

	The Killers (1964)
		His remake of the 1946 noir film The Killers - taken from an Ernest Hemingway short story of the same name - is telling of its time as much as it is of the director's frame of mind.
		In the '46 version, the flimsy short story is held together by the strength of its incredibly talented cast, which includes Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner.
		The dark noir is truly the story of a man pushed into a corner from which he cannot hope to escape.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Noir/Articles/Killers/Killers.html (544 words)

	Twentieth Century Literature: Vaudeville philosophers: "The Killers." - short story by Ernest Hemingway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Vaudeville philosophers: "The Killers." - short story by Ernest Hemingway
		Behind the story also is Hemingway's acquaintance by 1926 with vaudeville and with the idea of vaudeville.
		The connection has long been noted: in 1959, Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren mentioned the "vaudeville team" of Max and Al, and the "gag" and "dialogue" that remind the reader of their "unreal and theatrical quality."(1) The essay is, however, only the briefest of sketches on the subject.
	www.gradewinner.com /p/articles/mi_m0403/is_1_45/ai_54895476 (1301 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Killers, The
		Ernest Hemingway's gripping short story "The Killers" has fascinated readers and filmmakers for generations.
		In 1956, then-film student Andrei Tarkovsky tackled the story with a faithful 19-minute short.
		The 1946 version of Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=176 (220 words)

	SacTicket // DVD/Video
		That premise is the one link between Ernest Hemingway's 1927 short story, "The Killers," and the two Hollywood movies that are based on it and take its title -- Robert Siodmak's striking 1946 film noir, made in moody fl and white, and Don Siegel's brightly colored 1964 film, the first made-for-television movie.
		This week the Criterion Collection has released a two-disc edition of "The Killers" ($39.95, not rated) that is one of the most ingenious DVD packages in the short history of the medium.
		For it is the killers who try to discover why the man they were hired to kill -- a former race-car driver named Johnny North (played by John Cassavetes) -- didn't resist them or try to escape when they arrived at the school for the blind where he worked.
	www.sacticket.com /static/movies/dvd_video/hitman.html (1186 words)

	killers
		"The Killers" is adapted from Ernest Hemingway's short story.
		The story is about the senseless execution of an ex-boxer called Swede (Lancaster-in his film debut).
		The wonderfully engaging opening scene sets the stage for the dark story that unfolds, as the hardened hitmen, Al (McGraw) and Max (Conrad), drive into a small New Jersey town and enter a diner during the supper hour.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/killers.htm (678 words)

	DVD Breakdown \| The Killers (1946 / 1964)
		Ernest Hemingway's short story The Killers is an open-ended twelve-page miniature masterpiece that draws heavily on Hollywood gangster movie tropes and figures in its tantalizing glimpse of a man who for reasons unknown won't run from a pair of hired killers.
		The only one to have remained completely faithful to the story itself was Andrei Tarkovsky, who directed a twenty-minute film together with some fellow students while in film school.
		The extras on both discs in this set are presented in the form of a case file on the various adaptations of Hemingway's essential short story.
	www.dvdbreakdown.com /titles/killers.html (931 words)

	The Killers (1964)
		Two hired killers in blue and wearing conspicuous heavy fl shades enter the Sage House of the Blind, proceed to harass, then rough-up the blind secretary when she's slow in telling them where "Jerry Nicols" is. They go upstairs, start looking in the classrooms with about as much subtly as stockmen at the abattoir...
		That she plays Judas to his Christ is perhaps the key to understanding his passivity when the two killers come for him in the school for the blind.
		Generically, the story of a young boxer (Burt Lancaster) who becomes the patsy is much the same as that of a young race driver (John Cassavetes) who becomes the patsy.
	www.culturecourt.com /F/Noir/Killers64.htm (1836 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - The Killers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The title of Robert Sidomak’s The Killers comes from a famed short story written by Ernest Hemingway, and its opening scenes are a direct dramatization of that tale of unspecified regret.
		When readers are left at the end of the story, outside of the Swede’s resignation, they’re left with one of literature’s most chilling unanswered mysteries.
		This adaptation uses the story’s mystery as a jumping off point, and attempts to provide an adequate solution to a question that was probably better left open-ended.
	www.moviemartyr.com /1946/killers.htm (523 words)

	The Killers - DVD Movie Central
		That’s the question asked by Ernest Hemingway in his magazine short story “The Killers”, which became a quintessential film noir offering in the 40s, and the first ever made for TV movie in the 60s.
		The movie and story were the perfect fit for American cinema of the 40s, as well as its attitudes toward women, criminals, and the adamant resolution for all who make tragic mistakes.
		Those killers are Charlie (Marvin) and Lee (Gulager), who show up at a school for the blind and horribly gun down Johnny North (Cassavetes), whom again, waits for his demise with no protest.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/killers.htm (1292 words)

	Ernest Hemingway's The Killers (1946) \| The A.V. Club
		So ends the tenuous connection between Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Killers" and both of its feature-length adaptations, which used the Hemingway name to sell tickets, but diverged radically from their source and from each other.
		Lifted note-for-note from the Hemingway story, the classic opening scene of Siodmak's film sings with the high tension, sharp dialogue, and grim humor that's conspicuously absent from the rest of Anthony Veiller's mediocre screenplay.
		The story plays strictly by the crime-genre rules, including a $250,000 payroll caper, but Siodmak (Criss Cross, The Spiral Staircase), a director from the German Expressionist school, sustains a fatalistic tone with the atmospheric touches that define noir, favoring stark lighting effects that throw his post-war world into shadow.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/6883 (789 words)

	The Killers Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		In the short story, Nick Adams (Hemingway's semi-autobiographical narrator) is sitting at the counter in Henry's Diner one night when two hit men come in and announce that they're looking for the Swede, Ole Anderson (played by Lancaster in the 1946 movie).
		In the Siegel version, which is even further removed from the Hemingway story, the hit men find their victim, a former race-car driver (John Cassavetes), teaching at a school for the blind.
		The 1946 version is narrated from the point of view of a trained outsider, while Siegel chose one of the killers as his point-of-view character, and the racing back story and flashbacks are livelier and more interesting than the boxing-world segments from the original adaptation.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=5158 (1737 words)

	Retort Magazine ISSN 1445-7164 Think Forward Answer Back
		This book, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, is not ‘complete’ if some of its detractors are to be believed, for Hemingway weeded out lesser tales and what he considered juvenilia, but it is a good representation of the man’s short fictive work- good and bad.
		Perhaps the clearest example of this is his famed short story The Killers, in which, on a winter evening, near nightfall, Nick Adams- Hemingway’s fictive alter-ego of many stories- is at a diner, talking to its manager, George, in a Chicago suburb.
		And most of all, reading Hemingway- novels or short stories- is like opening a time capsule, for almost all his characters are long out of fashion semi-caricatures- from the killers in The Killers, to Margot Macomber and Robert Wilson of The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber, and on and on.
	www.retortmagazine.com /05/id_09_05_dan_schneider.htm (3249 words)

	The Killers - Criterion Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		In that regard, although both the Hemmingway story and the radio drama are relatively short, make sure you are able to enjoy them in a single sitting as I had trouble with my pause button.
		The story is riveting and the acting is decent.
		The masterful pairing of Marvin and Gulager in the Killers is the lynchpin to the whole movie and this to my mind is the key to the reason this movie is considered by many to be a true classic.
	www.aweno.com /dc/info/B00007ELDG/The_Killers___Criterion_Collection.html (1317 words)

	killers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		'The Killers' (1946, 105 min.) - Uses Ernest Hemingway's classic short story as a jumping-off point for an intense, hard-edged, and stylish tale of robbery, unrequited love, double-crosses, and brutal betrayal.
		'The Killers' (1964, 93 min.) - Two hired killers muscle their way into a school for the blind and terrorize the secretary until she reveals the whereabouts of racecar driver Johnny North.
		When the gunmen track him down, Johnny wordlessly accepts his fate with the passivity of a man already dead.
	www.happyhunter.com /zon_US/Curr_USD/catryDVD/reg_10/Killers (164 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Killers & Killers -- Robert Siodmak - DVD - Black & White
		Directed by Robert Siodmak, The Killers chronicles the investigation into the murder of a reclusive, washed-up boxer (Burt Lancaster) whose demise is somehow connected to an old flame (Ava Gardner) from years before.
		The Killers was Lancaster's screen debut and he scored big, his sotto voce delivery and sad-dog eyes suiting this tragic hero to a tee.
		Instead, a caper story emerges, and with O'Brien's tenacious, solid-as-a-rock investigator holding the film together, it's that story that ultimately holds the key to the hero's mysterious murder.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=715515013321&userid=Mo545jl9gY&frm=0&itm=8 (275 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Robert Siodmak/Don Siegel - 2003 - Killers, The (1946) / Killers, The (1964) Movies Review
		The Criterion Collection has done us a great service with their 2-disc DVD release of The Killers, the main draw of which is the inclusion of both the 1946 Robert Siodmak and the 1964 Don Siegel versions of Ernest Hemingway's enduring short story.
		A prime example of the short story format, Ernest Hemingway's The Killers (his original title was, revealingly, The Matadors) is confined to two locations (a restaurant and a boarding house) with a single-digit number of characters.
		In Hemingway's story Sam, the fl cook, is referred to as "the nigger," the continual repetition of which becomes a mantra that defies its racist origins and heightens the bleak morality of the story.
	www.culturedose.net /review.php?rid=10004614 (2206 words)

	notcoming.com \| The Killers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The opening scene — the adaptation of the original and entire Hemingway short — is brief: two hitmen enter a rehabilitative center for the blind in pursuit of their target, whom expects them and welcomes their violent ploy.
		This location — expanded from a diner in the short story — is a metaphoric device: the killers are the only ones who see in this crowd, and will seek the reasoning for their hire to kill a man who makes no attempt to preserve himself.
		The Killers was denied an intended television distribution, a denial made in respect to the Kennedy assassination.
	www.notcoming.com /reviews/killers64.html (510 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - The Killers (Criterion Collection) (1964) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		As the story opens two professional looking men in business suits -- Charlie (Lee Marvin) and Lee (Clu Gulager) -- push their way into a school for the blind and terrorize a secretary until she reveals the whereabouts of Johnny North (John Cassavetes).
		The movie is actually titled, "Ernest Hemingway's The Killers" which is funny, because there is nothing in the short story that's in the movie.
		The original "The Killers" from the 40's featured a scene in the diner with razor-sharp dialog lifted right from the short story.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=28478 (835 words)

	notcoming.com \| Killer Adaptations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		So opens Ernest Hemingway’s “The Killers,” a short story in which the targeted victim is warned of his own death and welcomes it.
		This is the triumph of a set by The Criterion Collection, which includes three filmed versions of the short story: Robert Siodmak’s and Don Seigel’s films (1946 and 1964), and Andrei Tarkovsky’s student film, made in 1956.
		Of the three Tarkovsky’s short is the most literal incarnation of the source material.
	www.notcoming.com /features/killeradaptations.html (496 words)

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