The Killers (1946)
Directed by Robert Siodmak · Cinematography by Elwood Bredell
Approved103 min62 frames
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What is The Killers about?
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
The Killers is a 1946 American film noir directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Burt Lancaster in his film debut, along with Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien and Sam Levene. Based in part on the 1927 short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway, it focuses on insurance detective Jim Riordan’s investigation into the execution by Al and Max, two professional killers, of former boxer Pete Lund who did not resist his own murder. The screenplay was written by Anthony Veiller, with uncredited contributions by John Huston and Richard Brooks.
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Sampled across 62 frames, the coverage of The Killers leans heavily on medium shots (68% of the sample). The camera returns again and again to high angles. Cinematographer Elwood Bredell keeps 48% of it in hard-edged, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 69% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1940s.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Killers (1946) are #050505, #313131, #707070, #8e8e8e, #cccccc, #f5f5f5 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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