The Killers

1h 43m · 1946 · Directed by Robert Siodmak · 3.8 / 5 on Letterboxd

The Killers (1946) runs 1h 43m, directed by Robert Siodmak. It is one of 3,647 films in the 100 Minute Movies catalog — every one rated 3.0 or higher by Letterboxd members and short enough to finish in an evening.

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.

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

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