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The Resource Ernest Hemingway's The killers

Ernest Hemingway's The killers

Label
Ernest Hemingway's The killers
Title
Ernest Hemingway's The killers
Title variation
Killers
Contributor
Actor
Film director
Film distributor
Filmmaker
Film producer
Production company
Screenwriter
Voice actor
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • eng
  • eng
Summary
Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: that was intended for television but deemed too violent for home audiences and released theatrically instead. The first is poetic and shadowy, the second direct and harsh as daylight, but both get at the heart of Hemingway's existential classic
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Cataloging source
TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
The killers (1946): director of photography, Woody Bredell ; film editor, Arthur Hilton ; art direction, Jack Otterson, Martin Obzina ; set decorations, Russell A. Gausman, E.R. Robinson ; "The more I know of love" lyrics, Jack Brooks ; music, Miklos Rozsa. The killers (1964): director of photography, Richard L. Rawlings ; art directors, Frank Arrigo and George Chan ; set decorations, John McCarthy, James S. Redd ; film editor, Richard Belding ; costumes by Helen Colvig ; music score, Johnny Williams ; song "Too little time", Henry Mancini and Don Raye ; "Too little time" sung by Nancy Wilson
Dewey number
791.43/75
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Guc5-1NE-PE
Language note
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing
LC call number
PN1997.A1
LC item number
K55 2015
PerformerNote
The killers (1946): Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene, Vince Barnett, Virginia Christine, Jack Lambert, Charles D. Brown, Donald MacBride, Charles McGraw, William Conrad. The killers (1964): Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager, Claude Akins, Norman Fell, Ronald Reagan
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  • 1900-1973
  • 1903-1965
  • 1903-1947
  • 1912-1991
  • 1913-1994
  • 1922-1990
  • 1915-1985
  • 1905-1968
  • 1905-1980
  • 1902-1977
  • 1920-1996
  • 1920-2002
  • 1887-1948
  • 1889-1957
  • 1914-1980
  • 1920-1994
  • 1929-1989
  • 1918-1994
  • 1924-1998
  • 1899-1961
  • 1913-1994
  • 1932-1986
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  • Siodmak, Robert
  • Veiller, Anthony
  • Hellinger, Mark
  • Siegel, Don
  • Coon, Gene L.
  • Lancaster, Burt
  • Gardner, Ava
  • O'Brien, Edmond
  • Dekker, Albert
  • Levene, Sam
  • Barnett, Vince
  • Christine, Virginia
  • Lambert, Jack
  • Brown, Charles D.
  • McBride, Donald
  • McGraw, Charles
  • Conrad, William
  • Marvin, Lee
  • Dickinson, Angie
  • Cassavetes, John
  • Gulager, Clu
  • Akins, Claude
  • Fell, Norman
  • Reagan, Ronald
  • Hemingway, Ernest
  • Kaminsky, Stuart M.
  • Keach, Stacy
  • Lancaster, Burt
  • Winters, Shelley
  • Tarkovski?, Andre? Arsenʹevich
  • Fancher, Hampton
  • Universal-International (Firm)
  • Mark Hellinger Productions, Inc
  • Universal Pictures Company
  • Revue Productions
  • Criterion Collection (Firm)
Runtime
196
Series statement
Criterion collection
Series volume
176
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  • Hemingway, Ernest
  • Assassins
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Label
Ernest Hemingway's The killers
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • Contains both the 1946 abd 1964 versions of "Ernest Hemingway's The killers". The 1946 film is in black and white; the 1964 film is in color
  • New high-definition digital restorations of both films
  • From the story by Ernest Hemingway
  • Originally released as motion pictures in 1946 and 1964, respectively
  • Special features: Disc 1: Stuart Kaminsky (interview from 2002 with writer Stuart M. Kaminsky); Source and adaptations: Hemingway's short story (audio recording from 2002 of actor Stacy Keach reading), Screen directors' playhouse (radio adaptation from 1949 of the 1946 film, starring Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters), Andrei Tarkovsky's The killers (short film adaptation); Siodmak trailers: Son of Dracula (1943), Cobra woman (1944), The killers (1946), Cry of the city (1948), Criss cross (1949). Disc 2: Reflections with Clu Gulager (interview from 2002 with actor Clu Gulager filmed by his sons, John and Tom Gulager); Don Siegel on The killers (audio excerpt from Don Siegel's autobiography, A Siegel Film, read by actor and director Hampton Fancher); Trailer. Insert includes essays by novelist Jonathan Lethem and critic Geoffrey O'Brien
Accompanying material
1 fold-out insert.
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
mixed
Configuration of playback channels
monaural
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Ernest Hemingway's The killers
  • (1946 ; 102 min.)
  • Universal International ; Mark Hellinger Productions, Inc. presents ; Universal Pictures Company, Inc. ; screenplay by Anthony Veiller ; produced by Mark Hellinger ; directed by Robert Siodmak
  • Ernest Hemingway's The killers
  • (1964 ; 94 min.)
  • Universal presents ; Revue Productions ; screenplay by Gene L. Coon ; produced and directed by Donald Siegel
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. +
Dimensions
  • 4 3/4 in.
  • other
Edition
Two-DVD special edition; DVD edition.
Extent
2 videodiscs (102 min., 94 min.)
Isbn
9781681430140
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
715515151016
Other physical details
sound, black and white and color
Physical substance
  • DVD
  • DVD video
Publisher number
  • CC2502D
  • CC2502D-1
  • CC2502D-2
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • (OCoLC)ocn911414205
  • (Sirsi) o911414205
  • (OCoLC)911414205
System details
DVD, NTSC, region 1, (1.33:1) aspect ratio, Dolby digital, mono
Video recording format
DVD
Label
Ernest Hemingway's The killers
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • Contains both the 1946 abd 1964 versions of "Ernest Hemingway's The killers". The 1946 film is in black and white; the 1964 film is in color
  • New high-definition digital restorations of both films
  • From the story by Ernest Hemingway
  • Originally released as motion pictures in 1946 and 1964, respectively
  • Special features: Disc 1: Stuart Kaminsky (interview from 2002 with writer Stuart M. Kaminsky); Source and adaptations: Hemingway's short story (audio recording from 2002 of actor Stacy Keach reading), Screen directors' playhouse (radio adaptation from 1949 of the 1946 film, starring Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters), Andrei Tarkovsky's The killers (short film adaptation); Siodmak trailers: Son of Dracula (1943), Cobra woman (1944), The killers (1946), Cry of the city (1948), Criss cross (1949). Disc 2: Reflections with Clu Gulager (interview from 2002 with actor Clu Gulager filmed by his sons, John and Tom Gulager); Don Siegel on The killers (audio excerpt from Don Siegel's autobiography, A Siegel Film, read by actor and director Hampton Fancher); Trailer. Insert includes essays by novelist Jonathan Lethem and critic Geoffrey O'Brien
Accompanying material
1 fold-out insert.
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
mixed
Configuration of playback channels
monaural
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Ernest Hemingway's The killers
  • (1946 ; 102 min.)
  • Universal International ; Mark Hellinger Productions, Inc. presents ; Universal Pictures Company, Inc. ; screenplay by Anthony Veiller ; produced by Mark Hellinger ; directed by Robert Siodmak
  • Ernest Hemingway's The killers
  • (1964 ; 94 min.)
  • Universal presents ; Revue Productions ; screenplay by Gene L. Coon ; produced and directed by Donald Siegel
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. +
Dimensions
  • 4 3/4 in.
  • other
Edition
Two-DVD special edition; DVD edition.
Extent
2 videodiscs (102 min., 94 min.)
Isbn
9781681430140
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other control number
715515151016
Other physical details
sound, black and white and color
Physical substance
  • DVD
  • DVD video
Publisher number
  • CC2502D
  • CC2502D-1
  • CC2502D-2
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
  • (OCoLC)ocn911414205
  • (Sirsi) o911414205
  • (OCoLC)911414205
System details
DVD, NTSC, region 1, (1.33:1) aspect ratio, Dolby digital, mono
Video recording format
DVD

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