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The Killers Movie (1946): Where to watch and stream online

The Killers

Mystery Crime Thriller

1946, Movie, 1h 43min

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

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Reviews

Kasper Løvborg

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Lancaster is for me the definition of a movie star (and of a man with a capital M), and Ava Gardner was one of his female equivalents. Here, a short by literary master Ernest Hemingway forms the basis, or the starting point, for the best film from...

4 years ago

Critic David Parkinson

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...while the action grips, this is primarily a triumph of atmosphere, with director Robert Siodmak imposing an Expressionist intimacy and foreboding onto the monochrome photography.

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The Killers is a crime thriller movie released in 1946. The movie follows the story of a former boxer known as "The Swede" who is killed by two hitmen without putting up a fight. An insurance investigator named Jim Reardon is tasked with finding the beneficiary of the Swede's life insurance policy, and as he delves deeper into the case, he uncovers a complex web of crime and deception involving the Swede's past associates and a mysterious woman named Kitty Collins. The movie features a star-studded cast, including Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, and Edmond O'Brien, and was directed by Robert Siodmak. The film was well-received by critics and audiences alike, and is considered a classic of the film noir genre.

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