Jules Dassin’s brooding, brutal drama is a classic film noir as well as one of the greatest prison films ever made.
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The original ‘The Killers’ on Criterion Channel
The first 15 minutes of Robert Siodmak’s The Killers (1946) remains the most the most faithful adaptation of Ernest Hemingway ever put on screen. Two gunmen from the city (Charles McGraw and William Conrad) take over a small town diner to wait for their target. When he doesn’t show, they take the hit to him, […]