The Killers
- Released on
- Runtime
- 103 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Edmond O'Brien
- Burt Lancaster
- Ava Gardner
- Albert Dekker
- Sam Levene
- Vince Barnett
- Virginia Christine
- Jack Lambert
- Charles D. Brown
- Donald MacBride
- Charles McGraw
- William Conrad
- Jeff Corey
- Gino Corrado
- Frank McLure
- Howard Freeman
- Charles Middleton
- Queenie Smith
- Jack Cheatham
- William Ruhl
- Ernie Adams
- George Anderson
- Sam Ash
- Frank Baker
- Oliver Cross
- Sam Harris
- Jack Lomas
- Jack Tornek
- John Sheehan
- Brooks Benedict
- Mike Lally
- John Berkes
- Edward Biby
- Robert Haines
- George Hoagland
- Florence Wix
- Harry Brown
- Phil Brown
- James Conaty
- Noel Cravat
- Neal Dodd
- Mike Donovan
- Dick Gordon
- Nolan Leary
- Michael Hale
- Harry Hayden
- Mark Hellinger
- Al Hill
- Jimmie Horan
- Kenner G. Kemp
- Paul Kruger
- Ethan Laidlaw
- Perc Launders
- Howard Negley
- Vera Lewis
- Therese Lyon
- John Miljan
- Garry Owen
- Beatrice Roberts
- Wally Rose
- Wallace Scott
- Ann Staunton
- Milton Wallace
- Bill Walker
Director
- Robert Siodmak
Producers
- Mark Hellinger
Screenwriter
- Anthony Veiller