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The Killers

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Awards

Academy Awards 1947 - Nominated - Best Director

Academy Awards 1947 - Nominated - Best Editing

Academy Awards 1947 - Nominated - Best Score

Academy Awards 1947 - Nominated - Best Screenplay

Academy Awards 1947 - Nominated - Best Director

Academy Awards 1947 - Nominated - Best Editing

Academy Awards 1947 - Nominated - Best Score

Academy Awards 1947 - Nominated - Best Screenplay

Edgar Allan Poe Awards 1947 - Won - Best Motion Picture

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The Killers

Director:
Robert Siodmak
 

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Film Synopsis

Ernest Hemingway's gripping short story "The Killers" has fascinated readers and filmmakers for generations. Its first screen incarnation came in 1946, when director Robert Siodmak unleashed The Killers, helping to define the film noir style and launching the careers of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner in this archetypal masterpiece. In 1956, then-film student Andrei Tarkovsky tackled the story with a faithful 19-minute short. In 1964, Don Siegel - initially slated to direct the 1946 version - took it on, creating the first-ever made-for-TV feature, which would prove too violent for American audiences in the wake of JFK's assassination. This version contains all three versions of this classic tale of amorality that asks why a man would silently welcome his fate with the passivity of a man already dead.

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Country:
UNITED STATES

Language:
English/American

Color:
Color

Plot Summary

SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Beautiful new digital transfer
  • Andrei Tarkovsky's student film version of The Killers
  • Video interview with writer Stuart M. Kaminsky (Don Siegel: Director)
  • Screen Director's Playhouse 1949 radio adaptation, starring Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters
  • Actor Stacy Keach (Mike Hammer) reads Hemingway's short story
  • Production and publicity stills with actor biographies, rare behind-the-scenes stills gallery, original press book and ads
  • Collection of trailers for Robert Siodmak films
  • Writer/director Paul Schrader's seminal 1972 essay "notes on film noir"
  • Notes by Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn)
  • Music and effects track
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
  • Optimal image quality: RSDL dual - layer edition

    Don Siegel's The Killers(1964)
  • Gleaming new digital transfer
  • Reflections with Clu Gulager, star of the 1964 version
  • Excerpts from A Siegel Film pertaining to the making of the movie
  • Production correspondence including memos from Don Siegel, broadcasting standards reports and casting suggestions
  • Production and publicity stills with actor biographies, rare behind - the - scenes stills gallery, and advertisements
  • Notes by Geoffrey O'Brien (Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir)
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
  • Optimal image quality: RSDL dual - layer edition

 

 

 

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