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She's a match for any mobster! - The Killers
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Title: The Killers

Release Date: 30 Aug 1946

Runtime: 1h 43m

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Director: Universal International Pictures

Production Companies: Universal International Pictures

Overview: 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.

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Average Vote: 7.345 (386 votes)

Cast

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