Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
The Killers
To coincide with the exhibition Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars, the Morgan presents this classic screen adaptation of Hemingway's work.
Director: Robert Siodmak
(1946, 103 minutes)
Using Ernest Hemingway's short story published in Scribner's Magazine in 1927 as a springboard, The Killers is a complex film noir. Two hit men (William Conrad and Charles McGraw) kill an aging boxer (Burt Lancaster, making his screen debut), who offers no resistance; the mystery begins to unfold from there. Siodmak's hard-edged, moody direction of the Oscar-nominated screenplay by Anthony Veiller, makes The Killers one of the definitive films noirs, including what is considered to be one of the greatest opening sequences in movie history.
