The Killers is a 1946 American film noir directed by Robert Siodmak and based in part on the short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway.
Two hitmen, Max and Al William Conrad and Charles McGraw, come to a small town to kill Ole the Swede Andreson Burt Lancaster. The Swedes coworker at a gas station warns him but, strangely, he makes no attempt to flee, and they kill him in his hotel room.Life insurance investigator Jim Reardon Edmond OBrien is assigned to find and pay the beneficiary of his policy. Tracking down and interviewing the dead mans friends and associates, Reardon doggedly pieces together his story. Police Lieutenant Sam Lubinsky Sam Levene, a close, longtime friend of the Swede, is particularly helpful. ........
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