The Killers poster
Writer John Huston, Richard Brooks
Screenplay Anthony Veiller
Director Robert Siodmak

The Killers

Tagline: She's a match for any mobster!

Release Date: 1946-08-30

Duration: 103 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Vera Lewis
    Ma Hirsch (uncredited)
  • Burt Lancaster
    'Swede' Andersen
  • Ava Gardner
    Kitty Collins
  • Jack Lambert
    'Dum-Dum' Clarke
  • Edmond O'Brien
    Jim Reardon
  • Queenie Smith
    Mary Ellen 'Queenie' Daugherty (uncredited)
  • Virginia Christine
    Lilly Harmon Lubinsky
  • William Conrad
    Max
  • Florence Wix
    Cafe Patron (uncredited)
  • Charles McGraw
    Al