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The Killers , 1946


The Killers is a 1946 American film noir Directed by Robert Siodmak and Based in a short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film established Lancaster as a major talent, and it helped launch Gardner as one of the screen’s legendary sex symbols.

Two professional killers arrive in a small southern town and kill Ol Anderson (Bart Lancaster), a man known by the nickname: "The Swede". Anderson  had settled in town in the last year and had taken a job at a gas station.

But there is a very big drama behind this story...

After his murder and as the Swede's past is revealed, it comes out that he was in love with a beautiful woman (Ava Gardner) who may have lured him into pulling off a robbery overseen by another man (Albert Dekker).

Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator (Edmond O'Brien), on a hunch, decides to look into the murder.

Ava Gardner's role as the film's strikingly beautiful, "dark" and unsympathetic femme fatale made her love goddess and star...

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