Rating: NR
Release Date: 02/18/2003
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 196 min
Distributor/Studio: Criterion

Prepare to experience two radically different versions of Ernest Hemingway's gripping crime drama The Killers as The Criterion Collection presents both the Robert Siodmak 1946 screen adaptation and Don Siegel's 1964 take on the tale in one feature-packed special edition DVD release. Both films are presented in 1.33:1 full-frame as originally released and offer audio in English Dolby Digital Mono with optional English subtitles. Special features for Siodmak's version include Andrei Tarkovsky's 1956 student film version of The Killers, a video interview with writer Stuart M. Kaminsky, a Screen Director's Playhouse radio adaptation of the tale from 1949, actor Stacy Keach reading Hemingway's original short story, production and publication stills, trailers for other Siodmak films, writer/director Paul Schrader's 1972 essay "Notes on Film Noir," an essay by Jonathan Lethem, and a music and effects audio track. Bonus materials for Siegel's version include reflections with star Clu Gulager, pertinent excerpts from Siegel's autobiography, A Siegel Film, production correspondence including memos from Siegel, production and publicity stills, an essay by Hardboiled America author Geoffrey O'Brien, and a music and effects track.

~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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The Killers
Cast:
Lee Marvin - Charlie
Angie Dickinson - Sheila Farr
John Cassavetes - Johnny North
Ronald Reagan - Browning
Clu Gulager - Lee
Claude Akins - Earl Sylvester
Norman Fell - Mickey
Virginia Christine - Miss Watson
Don Haggerty - Mail Truck Driver
Robert Phillips - George
Kathleen O'Malley - Receptionist
Ted Jacques - Gym Assistant

Production:
Don Siegel - Director
Don Siegel - Producer
John Williams - Composer
Richard Belding Stuart H. Pappe - Editor
Gene L. Coon - Screen Writer
James S. Redd John McCarthy - Set Designer
Frank Arrigo - Art Director
George B. Chan - Art Director
George O'Connell - Art Director
Richard L. Rawlings - Cinematographer
Helen Colvig - Costume Designer
Bud Westmore - Makeup
Stanley Wilson - Musical Direction/Supervision
Don Raye - Songwriter
Henry Mancini - Songwriter
Nancy Wilson - Songwriter
Ernest Hemingway - Short Story Author

The Killers
Cast:
Burt Lancaster - Ole "Swede" Anderson
Ava Gardner - Kitty Collins
Edmond O'Brien - Jim Reardon
Albert Dekker - Big Jim Colfax
Jeff Corey - Blinky
Sam Levene - Lt. Sam Lubinsky
William Conrad - Killer
Jack Lambert - Dum Dum
Virginia Christine - Lilly Lubinsky
Harry Hayden - George
John Miljan - Jake the Rake
Garry Owen - Joe Smalley, trainer
Wallace Scott - Charlie
Queenie Smith - Queenie
Bill Walker - Sam
Gabrielle Windsor - Ginny

Production:
Robert Siodmak - Director
Mark Hellinger - Producer
Miklos Rozsa - Composer
Arthur D. Hilton - Editor
John Huston Anthony Veiller - Screen Writer
Russell A. Gausman Edward Ray Robinson - Set Designer
Jack Otterson - Art Director
Martin Obzina - Art Director
Elwood Bredell - Cinematographer
Vera West - Costume Designer
Melville Shyer - First Assistant Director
Jack Pierce - Makeup
Jack Brooks - Songwriter
Miklos Rozsa - Songwriter
Bernard B. Brown - Sound/Sound Designer
David S. Horsley - Special Effects
Ernest Hemingway - Short Story Author

The Killers
Criss Cross
    Burt Lancaster / NR / 1948

The Killers
Gilda
    Rita Hayworth / NR / 1946
Born to Kill
    Lawrence Tierney / NR / 1947
Criss Cross
    Burt Lancaster / NR / 1948
Out of the Past
    Robert Mitchum / NR / 1947
The Postman Always Rings Twice
    Jack Nicholson / R / 1981

The Killers
1965 British Academy of Film and Television

The Killers
1946 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie

1946 National Board of Review