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* RemakeCameo: Virginia Christine, who plays Ole's first girlfriend in the 1946 movie, is the secretary at the school for the blind in this one.
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* RemakeCameo: Virginia Christine, Creator/VirginiaChristine, who plays Ole's first girlfriend in the 1946 movie, is the secretary at the school for the blind in this one.
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The second screen adaptation of the Creator/ErnestHemingway short story, following the iconic [[Film/TheKillers 1946 version]] by Creator/StanleyKubrick. Famous as the last acting role for future 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan; also famous as an extreme PlayingAgainstType role for Reagan (reportedly he was reluctant to do it). It ran in theaters two years before Reagan was elected governor of California in 1966.
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The second screen adaptation of the Creator/ErnestHemingway short story, following the iconic [[Film/TheKillers 1946 version]] by Creator/StanleyKubrick.version]]. Famous as the last acting role for future 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan; also famous as an extreme PlayingAgainstType role for Reagan (reportedly he was reluctant to do it). It ran in theaters two years before Reagan was elected governor of California in 1966.
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The second screen adaptation of the Creator/ErnestHemingway short story, following the iconic [[Film/TheKillers 1946 version]]. Famous as the last acting role for future 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan; also famous as an extreme PlayingAgainstType role for Reagan (reportedly he was reluctant to do it). It ran in theaters two years before Reagan was elected governor of California in 1966.
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The second screen adaptation of the Creator/ErnestHemingway short story, following the iconic [[Film/TheKillers 1946 version]].version]] by Creator/StanleyKubrick. Famous as the last acting role for future 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan; also famous as an extreme PlayingAgainstType role for Reagan (reportedly he was reluctant to do it). It ran in theaters two years before Reagan was elected governor of California in 1966.
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* KillEmAll: Everyone in the main cast winds up dead.
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* AdaptedOut: In the first movie the guy who unravels the story was an insurance investigator played by Creator/EdwardGRobinson. In this version the insurance guy is eliminated and it's the hitmen who uncover the heist story.
* AnyoneCanDie: Of the first seven characters listed in the credits, only two, [[spoiler:Mickey and Earl,]] survive.
* AnyoneCanDie: Of the first seven characters listed in the credits, only two, [[spoiler:Mickey and Earl,]] survive.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Of the first seven characters listed in the credits, only two, [[spoiler:Mickey and Earl,]] survive.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Jack Manning slaps Sheila across the face hard when she's openly canoodling with Johnny. Pretty famously, it's Ronald Reagan that does it.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Jack Manning slaps Sheila across the face hard when she's openly canoodling with Johnny. Pretty famously, it's Ronald Reagan that does it.it.
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Professional hit man Charlie Storm (Creator/LeeMarvin) and his partner Lee (Creator/CluGulager) track down their latest victim, former race car driver Johnny North (Creator/JohnCassavetes). They dispatch him with ease; in fact, he simply stands there and takes it, almost as if he were waiting for them.
Afterwards Charlie and Lee commiserate about the job. They are very curious about the fate of the $500,000 that Johnny is said to have taken in a big heist. Charlie is more philosophically curious about why a man, any man, wouldn't try to run. They investigate, and discover a story that involves Johnny's affair with sexy athlete groupie Sheila Farr (Creator/AngieDickinson), who just happened to be the mistress of the brutal crime boss turned real estate developer Jack Manning (UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan), who planned the big heist.
Afterwards Charlie and Lee commiserate about the job. They are very curious about the fate of the $500,000 that Johnny is said to have taken in a big heist. Charlie is more philosophically curious about why a man, any man, wouldn't try to run. They investigate, and discover a story that involves Johnny's affair with sexy athlete groupie Sheila Farr (Creator/AngieDickinson), who just happened to be the mistress of the brutal crime boss turned real estate developer Jack Manning (UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan), who planned the big heist.
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Professional hit man Charlie Storm (Creator/LeeMarvin) and his partner Lee (Creator/CluGulager) track down their latest victim, former race car driver Johnny North (Creator/JohnCassavetes). They dispatch him with ease; in fact, he simply stands there and takes it, almost as if he were though he'd been waiting for them.
Afterwards Afterwards, Charlie and Lee commiserate about the job. They are very curious about the fate of the $500,000 that Johnny is said to have taken in a big heist. Charlie is more philosophically curious about why a man, any man, wouldn't try to run. They investigate, and discover a story that involves Johnny's affair with sexy athlete groupie Sheila Farr (Creator/AngieDickinson), who just happened to be the mistress of the brutal crime boss turned real estate developer Jack Manning (UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan), who planned the big heist.
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Two hit men, Charlie (Creator/LeeMarvin) and his partner Lee (Creator/CluGulager), track down their latest victim, former race car driver Johnny North (Creator/JohnCassavetes). They dispatch him with ease; in fact, he simply stands there and takes it, almost as if he were waiting for them.
Afterwards Charlie and Lee commiserate about the job. They are very curious about the fate of the $500,000 that Johnny is said to have taken in a big heist. Charlie is more philosophically curious about why a man, any man, wouldn't try to run. They investigate, and discover a story that involves Johnny's affair with sexy athlete groupie Sheila Farr (Creator/AngieDickinson), who happened to be hooked up with brutal crime boss Jack Manning (UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan), who planned the big heist.
A remake of iconic 1946 film noir ''Film/TheKillers''. Famous as the last film for future 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan; also famous as an extreme PlayingAgainstType role for Reagan (reportedly he was reluctant to do it). It ran in theaters two years before Reagan was elected governor of California in 1966.
Afterwards Charlie and Lee commiserate about the job. They are very curious about the fate of the $500,000 that Johnny is said to have taken in a big heist. Charlie is more philosophically curious about why a man, any man, wouldn't try to run. They investigate, and discover a story that involves Johnny's affair with sexy athlete groupie Sheila Farr (Creator/AngieDickinson), who happened to be hooked up with brutal crime boss Jack Manning (UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan), who planned the big heist.
A remake of iconic 1946 film noir ''Film/TheKillers''. Famous as the last film for future 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan; also famous as an extreme PlayingAgainstType role for Reagan (reportedly he was reluctant to do it). It ran in theaters two years before Reagan was elected governor of California in 1966.
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Afterwards Charlie and Lee commiserate about the job. They are very curious about the fate of the $500,000 that Johnny is said to have taken in a big heist. Charlie is more philosophically curious about why a man, any man, wouldn't try to run. They investigate, and discover a story that involves Johnny's affair with sexy athlete groupie Sheila Farr (Creator/AngieDickinson), who just happened to be
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* AnyoneCanDie: Of the first seven characters listed in the credits, only two, [[spoiler:Mickey and Earl,]] survive.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Of the first seven characters listed in the credits, only two, [[spoiler:Mickey and Earl,]] survive.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Mickey Farmer]] survives, unlike [[spoiler:Blinky]], his counterpart in the original movie.
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''The Killers'' is a 1964 film directed by Creator/DonSiegel.
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''The Killers'' is a 1964 neo-noir crime film directed by Creator/DonSiegel.
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* PreMortemOneLiner: Sheila launches into her usual BS about how she didn't want anything that Jack did and he forced her and blah blah blah. Charlie says "Lady, I don't have the time," and shoots her. There's a double meaning in the line: it's a snappy PreMortemOneLiner but it's also literally true, as Charlie is rapidly bleeding to death.
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* IWasNeverHere: After getting the story of the robbery from Mickey, Charlie tells him to forget everything and also to forget that the two hit men visited him. Mickey, who seems to like being alive, agrees.
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Sheila the scheming FemmeFatale convinces Johnny to betray Jack and take all the money, a plan which requires Johnny throw Jack out of a speeding car. Then she betrays Johnny, leading him to a hotel rendezvous where Jack, lying in wait, shoots Johnny. It is not at all clear why Sheila and Jack didn't simply shoot Johnny to begin with.
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* SoftSpokenSadist: Jack Browning is a vicious, murderous criminal, but he's always calm and collected and never raises his voice. When Sheila refuses to stop caressing Jack, saying simply "I like it here" when Jack tells her to leave, he calmly says "Well I can fix that." Then he slaps her across the face.
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* SoftSpokenSadist: Jack Browning is a vicious, murderous criminal, but he's always calm and collected and never raises his voice. When Sheila refuses to stop caressing Jack, Johnny, saying simply "I like it here" when Jack tells her to leave, he calmly says "Well I can fix that." Then he slaps her across the face.
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* ThisIsWhatTheBuildingWillLookLike: Jack Browning, who is apparently trying to go legit with the "Browning Development Corporation", has models of construction developments in his swanky office.
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Two hit men, Charlie (Creator/LeeMarvin) and his partner Lee, track down their latest victim, former race car driver Johnny North (Creator/JohnCassavetes). They dispatch him with ease; in fact, he simply stands there and takes it, almost as if he were waiting for them.
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Two hit men, Charlie (Creator/LeeMarvin) and his partner Lee, Lee (Creator/CluGulager), track down their latest victim, former race car driver Johnny North (Creator/JohnCassavetes). They dispatch him with ease; in fact, he simply stands there and takes it, almost as if he were waiting for them.
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* CreatorCameo: Don Siegel as a cook in a diner.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the first film Kitty was a true FemmeFatale schemer who pitted Ole and Colfax against each other deliberately. In this one Sheila seems to genuinely love Johnny, but she can't get away from Jack and in the end she's simply caught up in events.
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* AsYouKnow: Lee feels it necessary to describe their victim as "Johnny North, hotshot race car driver" right after they kill him.
* TheCaper: Diverting a mail truck, then holding it up and stealing the large bankroll within.
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* SinisterShades: Charlie and Lee wear the standard intimidating hitman sunglasses. In fact the first shot of the movie is a closeup shot of Charlie wearing his, reflected in Lee's lens.
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* SoftSpokenSadist: Jack Browning is a vicious, murderous criminal, but he's always calm and collected and never raises his voice. When Sheila refuses to stop caressing Jack, saying simply "I like it here" when Jack tells her to leave, he calmly says "Well I can fix that." Then he slaps her across the face.
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: As Johnny is taking Sheila for a joyride in his race car, she deliberately puts her hand on his thigh. He slams the gas pedal down and the speedometer needle flips over.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: When the gang traces Johnny to his FallenOnHardTimesJob as a mechanic fixing race jalopies, Mickey says "There are two kinds of kooks: the ones who race these wrecks, and the ones who watch them."
* SomethingElseAlsoRises: As Johnny is taking Sheila for a joyride in his race car, she deliberately puts her hand on his thigh. He slams the gas pedal down and the speedometer needle flips over.
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: When the gang traces Johnny to his FallenOnHardTimesJob as a mechanic fixing race jalopies, Mickey says "There are two kinds of kooks: the ones who race these wrecks, and the ones who watch them."
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''The Killers'' is a 1964 film directed by Creator/DonSiegel.
Two hit men, Charlie (Creator/LeeMarvin) and his partner Lee, track down their latest victim, former race car driver Johnny North (Creator/JohnCassavetes). They dispatch him with ease; in fact, he simply stands there and takes it, almost as if he were waiting for them.
Afterwards Charlie and Lee commiserate about the job. They are very curious about the fate of the $500,000 that Johnny is said to have taken in a big heist. Charlie is more philosophically curious about why a man, any man, wouldn't try to run. They investigate, and discover a story that involves Johnny's affair with sexy athlete groupie Sheila Farr (Creator/AngieDickinson), who happened to be hooked up with brutal crime boss Jack Manning (UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan), who planned the big heist.
A remake of iconic 1946 film noir ''Film/TheKillers''. Famous as the last film for future 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan. It ran in theaters two years before Reagan was elected governor of California in 1966.
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* AdaptedOut: In the first movie the guy who unravels the story was an insurance investigator played by Creator/EdwardGRobinson. In this version the insurance guy is eliminated and it's the hitmen who uncover the heist story.
* AdaptationalNameChange:
** Ole Anderson to Johnny North
** Kitty Collins to Sheila Farr
** Big Jim Colfax to Jack Browning
** Al and Max to Charlie and Lee
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the first film Kitty was a true FemmeFatale schemer who pitted Ole and Colfax against each other deliberately. In this one Sheila seems to genuinely love Johnny, but she can't get away from Jack and in the end she's simply caught up in events.
* AlmostDeadGuy: Charlie lives long enough to kill Jack and Sheila.
* AscendedExtra: In the 1946 film the hit men are minor characters. In this version they are elevated to protagonists.
* DeathByAdaptation: Kitty survives (but is presumably imprisoned) in the 1946 film, but Sheila is shot by Charlie in this one.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: The hitmen are shocked by how Johnny approached his death, noting that he stood there and didn't run away or scream. It is this which leads them to investigate their own contract and unearth Swede's backstory.
* {{Flashback}}: While the 1946 film had ''eleven'' separate flashbacks that resorted in a weird AnachronicOrder structure, this film has a more standard structure, with the Johnny-Sheila-Jack story unfolding in a straighter series of flashbacks as the hitmen ask people about it.
* KillEmAll: Everyone in the main cast winds up dead.
* NumberTwo: Mickey (Norman Fell) is Jack's sidekick in crime. Unlike the five main charcters, he doesn't die.
* OneLastJob: Charlie admits to Lee that he's getting weary of killing people and hopes if they find the money Johnny North stole he can pass the contract killing business onto Lee and then retire. [[{{Retirony}} Three guesses how that turns out]].
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The reason that brings Charlie and Lee to investigate the reasons behind a murder commited by themselves is to get a bigger profit out of it.
* PetTheDog: Lee pets a guide dog in the garden of a charity center for blind people... Just before terrorizing and hitting the crap out of a blind old lady.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Johnny's strange acceptance of his own murder sets Charlie and Lee off investigating why.
* RemakeCameo: Virginia Christine, who plays Ole's first girlfriend in the 1946 movie, is the secretary at the school for the blind in this one.
* TheSociopath: Lee shows quite a crazy, childish and violent attitude in contrast to his mentor/partner Charlie, a tough, rough but level-minded professional.
* VillainProtagonist: The two killers are the protagonists, with Lee Marvin as the main lead.
* WouldHitAGirl: Jack Manning slaps Sheila across the face hard when she's openly canoodling with Johnny. Pretty famously, it's Ronald Reagan that does it.
Two hit men, Charlie (Creator/LeeMarvin) and his partner Lee, track down their latest victim, former race car driver Johnny North (Creator/JohnCassavetes). They dispatch him with ease; in fact, he simply stands there and takes it, almost as if he were waiting for them.
Afterwards Charlie and Lee commiserate about the job. They are very curious about the fate of the $500,000 that Johnny is said to have taken in a big heist. Charlie is more philosophically curious about why a man, any man, wouldn't try to run. They investigate, and discover a story that involves Johnny's affair with sexy athlete groupie Sheila Farr (Creator/AngieDickinson), who happened to be hooked up with brutal crime boss Jack Manning (UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan), who planned the big heist.
A remake of iconic 1946 film noir ''Film/TheKillers''. Famous as the last film for future 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan. It ran in theaters two years before Reagan was elected governor of California in 1966.
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* AdaptedOut: In the first movie the guy who unravels the story was an insurance investigator played by Creator/EdwardGRobinson. In this version the insurance guy is eliminated and it's the hitmen who uncover the heist story.
* AdaptationalNameChange:
** Ole Anderson to Johnny North
** Kitty Collins to Sheila Farr
** Big Jim Colfax to Jack Browning
** Al and Max to Charlie and Lee
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the first film Kitty was a true FemmeFatale schemer who pitted Ole and Colfax against each other deliberately. In this one Sheila seems to genuinely love Johnny, but she can't get away from Jack and in the end she's simply caught up in events.
* AlmostDeadGuy: Charlie lives long enough to kill Jack and Sheila.
* AscendedExtra: In the 1946 film the hit men are minor characters. In this version they are elevated to protagonists.
* DeathByAdaptation: Kitty survives (but is presumably imprisoned) in the 1946 film, but Sheila is shot by Charlie in this one.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: The hitmen are shocked by how Johnny approached his death, noting that he stood there and didn't run away or scream. It is this which leads them to investigate their own contract and unearth Swede's backstory.
* {{Flashback}}: While the 1946 film had ''eleven'' separate flashbacks that resorted in a weird AnachronicOrder structure, this film has a more standard structure, with the Johnny-Sheila-Jack story unfolding in a straighter series of flashbacks as the hitmen ask people about it.
* KillEmAll: Everyone in the main cast winds up dead.
* NumberTwo: Mickey (Norman Fell) is Jack's sidekick in crime. Unlike the five main charcters, he doesn't die.
* OneLastJob: Charlie admits to Lee that he's getting weary of killing people and hopes if they find the money Johnny North stole he can pass the contract killing business onto Lee and then retire. [[{{Retirony}} Three guesses how that turns out]].
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The reason that brings Charlie and Lee to investigate the reasons behind a murder commited by themselves is to get a bigger profit out of it.
* PetTheDog: Lee pets a guide dog in the garden of a charity center for blind people... Just before terrorizing and hitting the crap out of a blind old lady.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Johnny's strange acceptance of his own murder sets Charlie and Lee off investigating why.
* RemakeCameo: Virginia Christine, who plays Ole's first girlfriend in the 1946 movie, is the secretary at the school for the blind in this one.
* TheSociopath: Lee shows quite a crazy, childish and violent attitude in contrast to his mentor/partner Charlie, a tough, rough but level-minded professional.
* VillainProtagonist: The two killers are the protagonists, with Lee Marvin as the main lead.
* WouldHitAGirl: Jack Manning slaps Sheila across the face hard when she's openly canoodling with Johnny. Pretty famously, it's Ronald Reagan that does it.
