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This 1946 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's short story adds well over an hour of new material to the original tale. The reason is, while director Robert Siodmak, star Burt Lancaster, and an outstanding supporting cast are faithful to Hemingway's work, his story only takes up about 15 minutes of screen time. Burt Lancaster plays the doomed man sought by hired guns in a small town. Hemingway's bruisingly concise dialogue makes an early sequence set in a diner quite unnerving, but after the killers dispense with their prey, Siodmak turns to an insurance investigator (Edmond O'Brien) who looks into the reasons behind the murder. An exemplary film noir (complete with a fickle femme fatale played by Ava Gardner), The Killers is all mood and fatalism.
Powerful and beautiful - this is a pure example of films which are acted and directed well. Burt Lancaster is a bewildered young man who has 'stars in his eyes' - this particular star being Ava Gardner.
The magic of Ava's influence over Bruce is perfect to behold and the film is film noir at it's peek - but it does have a very good supporting cast
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