The Killers

The Killers

She's a match for any mobster!

1946 · 103 min · ★ 7.4 · Crime, Mystery, Thriller

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.

Directed by Robert Siodmak · Written by Anthony Veiller

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Edmond O'Brien Jim Reardon
Burt Lancaster 'Swede' Andersen
Ava Gardner Kitty Collins
Albert Dekker Big Jim Colfax
Sam Levene Lt. Sam Lubinsky
Vince Barnett Charleston
Virginia Christine Lilly Harmon Lubinsky
Jack Lambert 'Dum-Dum' Clarke
Charles D. Brown Packy Robinson - Ole's Manager
Donald MacBride R.S. Kenyon
Charles McGraw Al
William Conrad Max

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