Earnest Hemingway’s ‘The Killers’. Robert Siodmak, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Don Siegel, 1946-1964.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #176, released 2015. English language and Russian language with English subtitles. Compiled runtime approximately 215 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The Criterion 2-DVD set offers filmed versions of Hemingway’s short story by Robert Siodmak (1946), Andrei Tarkovsky (1956), and Don Siegel (1964), as well as a recording of the 1948 “Screen Director’s Playhouse” radio play (30 minutes), and the original short story read by Stacy Keach (18 minutes).