The Killers (1964 film)

The Killers, released in the UK as Ernest Hemingways The Killers, is a 1964 crime film written by Gene L. Coon, directed by Don Siegel, starring Lee Marvin, John Cassavetes, Angie Dickinson and Ronald Reagan, and released by Universal Studios. The movie remains notable for being future U.S. president Reagans last theatrical film before entering politics as well as the only one in which he plays the role of a villain.

One morning, hit men Charlie Lee Marvin and Lee Clu Gulager enter a school for the blind and terrorize the principal until she reveals the whereabouts of a teacher, Johnny North John Cassavetes. As the hitmen walk toward Norths upstairs classroom, the teacher receives a call warning him of their arrival. Johnny sadly responds, Its okay. I know them. As he calmly waits at his desk, Charlie and Lee enter and shoot him multiple times.As they depart by train, Charlie is bothered that North refused to flee, and that they were paid an unusually high fee for such a simple hit. He and Lee run through what they know about the man they have just killed. Johnny was once a champion race car driver whose career ended in a violent crash. Four years before his death, he was involved in a milliondollar robbery of a mail truck. Tempted by the missing million, Charlie and Lee visit Miami to interview Johnnys former mechanic. ........

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