The Killers (1964)
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Directors
Don Siegel
Cast
Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager, Claude Akins, Norman Fell
The story
Hitmen Charlie Strom and Lee enter a school for the blind and shoot the nonresistant Johnny North (who goes by the name Jerry Nibbles) several times, killing him. Charlie is bothered that North refused to flee and notes they were paid an unusually high fee. He and Lee run through what they know about Johnny.
Genres
Crime, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film
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