In 1946, two hitmen, Max and Al, arrive in Brentwood, New Jersey, to kill Pete Lund, a former boxer known as "The Swede". After being confronted by the pair in a diner, Lund's coworker, See more

Development
The first 20 minutes of the film, showing the arrival of the two contract killers and the murder of "Swede" Anderson is a close adaptation of … See more

The Killers was dramatized as a half-hour radio play on the June 5, 1949, broadcast of Screen Director's Playhouse, starring Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters and William Conrad.
In 1956, director Andrei Tarkovsky, then a film student, created See more

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• Burt Lancaster as Pete Lund/Ole "Swede" Anderson
• Ava Gardner as Kitty Collins
• Edmond O'Brien as Jim Reardon
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Critical response
When the film was first released, Bosley Crowther gave it a positive review and lauded the acting. He wrote "With Robert Siodmak's restrained … See more

The Killers has come to be regarded as a classic in the years since its release, and in 2008, was selected for preservation in the United States See more