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Ernest Hemingway's The killers /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC1583D | Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 176.Publication details: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, ©2003.Edition: [Fullscreen presentation]Description: 2 videodiscs (102 min., 94 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 brochuresContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1559409312
  • 9781559409315
Other title:
  • Killers
Uniform titles:
  • Killers (Motion picture : 1946)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.4375 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .E76 2003
Other classification:
  • HU 3863
Contents:
Disc 1. 1946 adaptation -- disc 2. 1964 adaptation.
Production credits:
  • 1946 version: Produced by Mark Hellinger ; directed by Robert Siodmak ; screenplay, Anthony Veiller ; music, Miklos Rozsa ; director of photography, Woody Bredell ; editor, Arthur Hilton.
  • 1964 version: Produced and directed by Donald Siegel ; screenplay, Gene L. Coon ; music, Johnny Williams ; director of photography, Richard L. Rawlings ; editor, Richard Belding.
Awards:
  • 1946 version was named to the National Film Registry in 2008 by the Library of Congress.
  • Winner, Best Foreign Actor (Lee Marvin), 1966 BAFTA Awards.
Cast: 1946 version: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Sam Levene, Virginia Christine, William Conrad.Cast: 1964 version: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager, Ronald Reagan.Summary: Melodramatic thrillers based on the Hemingway story about two hit men and their target, who accepts his fate as though he were already dead.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 0430 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050093172

Based on the short story, The killers, by Ernest Hemingway.

Includes two essay brochures: Essay on 1946 version by Jonathan Lethem and essay on 1964 version by Geoffrey O'Brien.

Originally produced as motion pictures in 1946 and 1964.

Special features: Disc 1, Andrei Tarkovsky's 1956 student film version of The killers (Ubiĭt͡sy) ; video interview with writer Stuart M. Kaminsky ; Screen Director's Playhouse 1949 radio adaptation ; Reading of Hemingway's short story ; Production stills ; Music and effects track -- Disc 2, Reflections with Clu Gulager ; Excerpts from Don Siegel's autobiography A Siegel film.

Disc 1. 1946 adaptation -- disc 2. 1964 adaptation.

Not rated.

DVD ; NTSC ; fullscreen presentation ; Dolby digital mono ; dual-layer disc.

English SDH captions for the hearing impaired [1946 and 1964 features].

1946 version was named to the National Film Registry in 2008 by the Library of Congress.

Winner, Best Foreign Actor (Lee Marvin), 1966 BAFTA Awards.

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