The Killers

The Killers

The Killers, a 1946 film also known as Ernest Hemingway's The Killers, is an intense, hard-edged, stylish film noir of robbery, unrequited love, brutal betrayal and double-cross.

Year:
1946
926 Views
Every kiss carved his name on another bullet.
TENSE! TAUT! TERRFIFIC! told the untamed Hemingway way!

Kitty:
I'm taking my life in my hands coming to you like this, but I just couldn't stand by, not after what you did for me that time in Philly.

Swede:
Forget that. Why are you here now?

Kitty:
Colfax thinks I'm on my way to New York. He's meeting me there tomorrow. But I just had to come to you, Swede, and tell you.

Swede:
Tell me what?

Kitty:
They're planning to double-cross you.

Swede:
Who is?

Kitty:
Colfax and the others. They don't intend for you ever to get a smell of the money from tomorrow's job.

Swede:
How do you know that?

Kitty:
Colfax sprung it tonight on Dum Dum and Blinky right after you left. First, he called you names and said dirty things about you. And then he sprung it. What if they were not to go to the half-way house after the robbery? You'd go there, but they'd be someplace else, and so would the money.

Swede:
What did Blinky and Dum Dum say?

Kitty:
They fell right in with the idea.

Swede:
Where are they gonna meet?

Kitty:
The farmhouse north of town on Polk Road, eleven miles out on the turnpike. Colfax hates you, Swede, so much so that Blinky and Dum Dum have caught it from him and they hate you too.

Swede:
Thanks for putting me wise, Kitty.

Kitty:
What are you gonna do? Swede - what are you gonna do?

Swede:
I'm gonna do them like they mean to do me.

Kitty:
Promise me one thing. You won't give me away. If Colfax ever found out what I did...

Swede:
Don't you worry.

Kitty:
You know why Colfax hates you? Because of me. He's no fool. He sees what's happened.

Swede:
Why did you ever go back to him, Kitty?

Kitty:
Maybe because I hate him. I'm poison, Swede, to myself and everybody around me. I'd be afraid to go with anyone I love for the harm I'd do them. I don't care harming him.

Swede:
[He pulls Kitty into his arms] You're not meetin' him tomorrow.

Kitty:
All right, Swede. [They embrace and kiss passionately]

Colfax:
I guess our luck's run out, Kitty. [To Reardon] You didn't have anything on her before now, did ya?

Reardon:
No, but I had to make you think so. And I was sure you'd try to knock me off before I could find out Kitty was your wife.

Colfax:
You knew that too, huh?

Reardon:
Married people can't testify against each other. Otherwise, I would have tried playing you off one against each other, instead of making myself a target for those gunmen of yours...

Lubinsky:
What I don't get is, why you sent those two killers to blast the Swede? He wasn't doing ya any harm there in Brentwood. Why didn't ya let well enough alone?

Colfax:
I couldn't. Suppose one of the gang ran into him, same as I did. They were after the money, if he had a chance to tell his story, and that would've been the end of it. They knew Kitty and I were married and they've seen through the frame-up. Anyhow, if I hadn't had him knocked off, he would've wondered why, and begun thinking.

Kitty:
Jim! Jim!! Tell 'em I didn't know anything. Jim, listen to me. You can save me. Jim, do ya hear me? Tell them I didn't know those gunmen were coming. Say, 'Kitty is innocent. I swear, Kitty is innocent.' Say it, Jim, say it! It'll save me if you do.

Lubinsky:
Don't ask a dyin' man to lie his soul into hell.

Kitty:
'Kitty is innocent. I swear, Kitty is innocent.'

Reardon:
It's no use, Kitty. Your would-be fall guy is dead.

Kitty:
Come back, Jim, tell them. Come back! SAVE ME! Jim! 'Kitty is innocent! I swear! Kitty is innocent! Kitty is innocent! I swear, Kitty is innocent! Kitty is innocent!'


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