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Year: 1964
Director: Don Siegel

Cast:

Lee Marvin (Charlie Strom), Angie Dickinson (Sheila Farr), John Cassavetes (Johnny North), Clu Gulager (Lee), Claude Akins (Earl Sylvester), Norman Fell (Mickey Farmer), Ronald Reagan (Jack Browning), Virginia Christine (Miss Watson), Don Haggerty (Mail Truck Driver), Robert Phillips (George Fleming), Kathleen O'Malley (Miss Leslie - the receptionist), Ted Jacques (Gym Assistant), Irvin Mosley Jr. (Mail Truck Guard (as Irvin Mosley)), Jimmy Joyce (Salesman), Davis Roberts (Maître D'), Hall Brock (Race Marshal), Burt Mustin (Elderly Man), Peter Hobbs (Instructor), John Copage (Porter), Tyler McVey (Steward)

Storyline:

Ernest Hemingway’s gripping short story “The Killers” has fascinated readers and filmmakers for generations. Its first screen incarnation came in 1946, when director Robert Siodmak unleashed The Killers, helping to define the film noir style and launching the careers of Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner in this archetypal masterpiece. In 1956, then-film student Andrei Tarkovsky tackled the story with a faithful 19-minute short. In 1964, Don Siegel—initially slated to direct the 1946 version—took it on, creating the first-ever made-for-TV feature, which would prove too violent for American audiences in the wake of JFK’s assassination. The Criterion Collection presents all three versions of this classic tale of amorality that asks why a man would silently welcome his fate with the passivity of a man already dead.

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