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The Killers
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.
Robert Siodmak
Casts & Crew
Burt Lancaster
Ava Gardner
Edmond O'Brien
Albert Dekker
Sam Levene
Vince Barnett
Virginia Christine
Jack Lambert
Charles D. Brown
Donald MacBride
William Conrad
Jeff Corey
Gino Corrado
Frank McLure
Howard Freeman
Charles Middleton
Queenie Smith
Jack Cheatham
William Ruhl
Ernie Adams
George Anderson
Sam Ash
Frank Baker
Oliver Cross
Sam Harris
Jack Lomas
Jack Tornek
John Sheehan
Brooks Benedict
Mike Lally
John Berkes
Edward Biby
Robert Haines
George Hoagland
Florence Wix
Harry Brown
Phil Brown
James Conaty
Noel Cravat
Neal Dodd
Mike Donovan
Dick Gordon
Nolan Leary
Michael Hale
Harry Hayden
Mark Hellinger
Al Hill
Jimmie Horan
Kenner G. Kemp
Paul Kruger
Ethan Laidlaw
Perc Launders
Howard Negley
Vera Lewis
Therese Lyon
John Miljan
Garry Owen
Beatrice Roberts
Wally Rose
Wallace Scott
Ann Staunton
Milton Wallace
Bill Walker
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