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	The Killers (1964 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Killers, sometimes called Ernest Hemingway's The Killers, released by Universal Studios in 1964, was Hollywood's second adaptation of the Hemingway short story.
		The 1964 Killers was the first movie ever to be "made for TV", but NBC judged it too violent to broadcast, and Universal released the movie in theaters instead.
		During filming, according to the DVD commentary, leading lady Angie Dickinson received the news that her friend (and rumored romantic partner) President John F. Kennedy had been shot and killed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Killers_(1964_film) (229 words)

	Film noir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Film noir is a film style and mood primarily associated with crime films, that portrays its principal characters in a cynical and unsympathetic world.
		Film noir is primarily derived from the hard-boiled style of crime fiction of the Depression era (many films noir were adaptations of such novels) and the gritty style of 1930s horror fiction.
		Film noir has been associated by some critics with the political landscape of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s--in particular, with a sense of social anxiety and alienation that is said to have followed World War II and later with the Red Scare.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Film_noir (2388 words)

	The Killers (1946 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Killers, also known as Ernest Hemingway's The Killers is a fl and white film noir directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Burt Lancaster.
		The film is based on the Ernest Hemingway story of the same name.
		Actors Charles McGraw and William Conrad play the hit men in the film, however the rest of the story, told in flashback, was created (rumored to be written by uncredited John Huston) solely for the film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Killers_(1946_film) (274 words)

	DVD review of Killers, The: Double-Disc Set - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Siodmak version of the film “Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers” is a gritty and dark representation of the blossoming concept the came to be known as film noir in the years surrounding its establishment.
		Film scholars disagree on the exact criteria of a film noir picture, simply based on the fact that it is an emotion, a style choice, a plot point that can define a film as noir, it is not a genre of its own making.
		The final reason “The Killers” is a landmark film, is the cinematic swan song of one Ronald Reagan, in a role as foreign to him as impromptu speaking.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/The_Killers_Double-Disc_Set/10969/1881 (3066 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Killers: Criterion Collection
		That's a shame, because it is a hallmark film and I wish the opening scenes hadn't felt so wooden to me. It is ironic that the strength of the 1956 film is its absolute adherence to Hemingway, while my least favorite part of the 1946 version is the same material.
		This thorough treatise on film noir is a cohesive and influential landmark of cinematic criticism.
		Furthermore, any killers worth their salt would have waited for the Swede to walk in, followed him out, and capped him on the sidewalk or in his apartment.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/killers.php (2740 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.
		Former Broadway news reporter/columnist-later-independent film producer Mark Hellinger, with his first film for Universal, was known for stark, hard-boiled crime-gangster films (e.g., The Roaring Twenties (1939), High Sierra (1941), Brute Force (1947), and The Naked City (1948)).
		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.
	www.filmsite.org /killers.html (1788 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Wager, Dames in the Driver's Seat
		Film noir continues to fascinate, and to serve as a durable feature of many Hollywood narratives, as a bankable advertising mode, and as an ongoing inspiration for consumers, students, and scholars of popular culture.
		Film noir provides spectators with the "chaotic repetition of the familiar" governed, in general, by what cultural critic bell hooks calls the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.
		Film noir, with its focus on the mythologies of class, sex-gender, and race, continues to reflect the ambiguity and extremes of postmodern experience.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exwagdam.html (3713 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.
		Siegel's later effort is also a film typical of its time, originally made for TV but exhibited theatrically as it was deemed overly violent for TV in the wake of JFK's assassination.
		It's also a film with many strong points, including standout performances from Lee Marvin and Ronal Reagan, but as a film, it hasn't dated as well as the 1946 version, which only seems to get better with each passing year.
	www.dvdbreakdown.com /titles/killers.html (931 words)

	The John Williams Web Pages: The Killers
		A remake of the the 1946 film of the same name (which in turn was loosely based on Ernest Hemingway's (very) short story), The Killers almost made TV history as the first made-for-television movie; it was produced by Universal's Revue Studios for NBC's Project 120.
		The film tends to slow down during the flashback sequences, but is compelling whenever Marvin and Gulager are on screen.
		The film has been issued on VHS (MCA 55014) and was released on Laserdisc only as a Japanese import (with subtitles).
	www.johnwilliams.org /compositions/killers.html (494 words)

	SacTicket // DVD/Video
		For this film version -- which was written primarily by John Huston ("The Maltese Falcon"), though not credited to him due to Huston's contract with a rival studio -- the murder of The Swede represents only the start of a mystery that unfolds, piece by piece, in flashbacks.
		The film is propelled by the stirring performances of Lancaster, O'Brien and Gardner, as well as Sam Levene as a police detective who was a childhood friend of The Swede, Virginia Christine (the future Mrs.
		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)

	The Killers - DVD Movie Central
		The film he would make would bear little resemblance to the Siodmak version, or the original Hemingway text: no names were re-used, for one, and for two, this time around, the story earned the title by making the killers the investigators, not some neutral third party involved for entirely other reasons.
		Don Siegel’s film is a bit stripped down, a little uneven (sometimes chaotic), but it has a more tightly wound structure and a better sense of urgency, not the least of which comes from making the main character a racer instead of a boxer.
		The 1946 version is as clean and pristine a fl and white print from that era as I’ve yet seen.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/killers.htm (1292 words)

	Chico News and Review March 06, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In contrast, the 1964 version (the first-ever made-for-TV film, but due to its violent nature canned in the wake of the Kennedy assassination) was directed by Don Siegal and starred the rough and ready Lee Marvin and too-sexy-for-her-purr Angie Dickenson.
		This remake is all bawdy color and splashy action as it careens (somewhat humorously) through the more mercenary elements of Hemingway’s story (hilarious racing scene with John Cassavettes and Ronald Reagan as a bitch-slapping mobster).
		One of the many intriguing extras is a three-scene student film co-directed by Russian master Andrei Tarkovsky that is even more faithful to the original short story.
	www.newsreview.com /chico/Content?oid=oid:25433 (175 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...
		Cut To: the killers have detoured to Miami and the West Palm Beach specialty garage of one Bob Sylvester (Claude Atkins), former partner of Johnny North, the mechanic who set the trim of the muscle AC sports car North drove in competition.
		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.
	www.culturecourt.com /F/Noir/Killers64.htm (1836 words)

	PAPA'S WORK GAVE BIRTH TO FILMS BOTH GOOD AND BAD
		During the filming of ``The Sun Also Rises'' in Mexico, she would secretly telephone him daily and complain about the film, saying ``Papa, you won't believe what they're doing to your book.'' Consequently, he made much trouble with the studio, which couldn't figure out where he was getting his information.
		The film was a sentimental tear-jerker in which the son discovers the father's indiscretions early on, destroying the surprise ending from the story.
		Filmed in Mexico, it was generally felt that the cast members were too old.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp970126/01250046.htm (1068 words)

	Ascully.com - DVD, Anime, Videogames, Tech & Babes
		There are times in the 1946 film that it's hard to believe that the film is nearly 60 years old.
		In the 1964 film, the fact that it was originally made for television, which made it brighter by the nature of the small screen, made this DVD transfer that much more colorful and a pleasure to watch.
		Often older films have a lot of dark murky sections that get lost in the translation when they get put onto DVD, but both versions of The Killers are really a testament to just what a valuable medium DVD can be in the preservation of our cinematic classics.
	www.ascully.com /modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=251 (2208 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - The Killers (Criterion Collection) (1946-1964)
		The Killers uses Ernest Hemingway's short story as a springboard for a complex film noir.
		Siodmak's hard-edged, moody direction of the Oscar-nominated screenplay by Anthony Veiller, makes The Killers one of the definitive films noirs, including what is considered to be one of the greatest opening sequences in movie history.
		Don Siegel directed this intensely pessimistic re-make of Robert Siodmak's 1946 film noir masterpiece The Killers, based upon a story by Ernest Hemingway.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=28478 (1190 words)

	Ernest Hemingway's The Killers (1946) \| The A.V. Club
		Both films take the idea of a passive victim as a jumping-off point into investigating the past, with flashback structures that piece the man's life together, but otherwise, they're a study in contrasts.
		Originally slated to direct the 1946 version, Siegel (Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, Dirty Harry) finally got a crack at Hemingway's story when NBC commissioned it to be the first made-for-TV movie, but his taste for frank sexuality and low-down viciousness kept it off the air.
		In contrast to the original film, Marvin's bafflement at Cassavetes' strange passivity leads him to conduct the investigation himself (and perhaps recover the missing million to boot), which makes for a much stronger character piece.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/6883 (779 words)

	The Killers (1964)
		Don Siegel, who directed the made-for-TV version but couldn't make the first film because he was under contract, admits in one of the DVD's extras that the 1946 film "tailed off" after the chilling opening that remained faithful to Hemingway's story.
		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.
		The film is presented in 1.33:1 ratio, as it appeared in theaters, and beautifully restored and remastered from a 35mm nitrate fine-grain master positive.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=5158&buy=closed&PID=10106552&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (1473 words)

	Images - The Cat in the Hat
		Films were packaged together as an entire evening's worth of entertainment.
		Ernest Hemingway's slim little short story The Killers was made into a great film in 1946 by director Robert Siodmak (and starring Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner), and Don Siegel directed an excellent remake in 1964 (starring Lee Marvin and Angie Dickinson).
		Surprisingly, though, almost all the wisecracks fall flat, but many film viewers won't notice the lack of laughter because the movie is so noisy that it's hard to hear yourself think, let alone determine whether the people next to you are laughing.
	www.imagesjournal.com /2003/reviews/cathat/text.htm (930 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Killers (1946/64)
		It was first filmed in 1946, at the peak of noir filmmaking in Hollywood; the second version was produced in 1964, originally conceived of as the first made-for-television movie.
		This film was the coming-out party for not one but two iconic screen presences: Burt Lancaster is brooding and tough as the Swede, a man whose doom can be seen in his eyes, even as he gazes at the girl he loves.
		The story goes that Mark Hellinger, who produced the 1946 version, wanted Siegel to direct that one, but wouldn't pay to get him out of his studio contract; and that this second version was slated to be the first M.O.W., until NBC executives screened it and decided it was too violent for prime time.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=4652 (2241 words)

	Criss Cross Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Film noir staple Dan Duryea (Scarlett Street) makes for a rather pallid villain and seems too slight to pose any real threat to Lancaster.
		Remade in 1995 as The Underneath by Steven Soderbergh, Criss Cross is one of several film noir titles released on DVD in recent years.
		This adaptation of a Hemingway short story is a remake of the 1946 film of the same name.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=2273 (784 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : The Killers: The Criterion Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		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.
		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.
		Andrei Tarkovsky's 20-minute student film of Hemingway's story is the most faithful to the text — it is, in fact, almost literal — but suffers instead from weak student performances, which exacerbate the strains of Tarkovsky's, er, patient, style.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/k/killers_cc.shtml (1036 words)

	The Killers (1946): Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien - PopMatters Film Review
		His last film, released after his early death from a heart attack, was Naked City (1948), later the inspiration of a 1960s television series.
		He appreciated Hellinger's 1946 transformation of his 1927 short story, "The Killers." In it, Hemingway had distilled a number of his obsessions, most notably, "grace under pressure." The taciturn Swede, hunted by the eponymous hoodlums, refuses to flee his fate or provide any rationale for his imminent demise.
		The episode in which the killers attack Reardon in a bar is crisp and to the point, showing how gunplay is often over almost as soon as it starts.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/k/killers-dvd.shtml (1500 words)

	Salon Reviews \| "Burt Lancaster: An American Life" by Kate Buford
		For an actor whose screen debut, the 1946 film noir classic "The Killers," made him an instant star, Burt Lancaster's first few seconds on celluloid are remarkably subdued.
		The "Citizen Kane" of film noir, which takes off from the story by Ernest Hemingway, recounts the circumstances leading up to the murder of Ole "Swede" Anderson (Lancaster), a lug double-crossed by Ava Gardner and a male confederate in a payroll heist.
		This film about a convict who becomes an expert on birds, writes Buford, is "Lancaster's great expression of hope and freedom of the spirit, his secular bow to the Christian idea of redemption he had been brought up with."
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2000/03/10/buford/print.html (1449 words)

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