{"id":15872,"date":"2016-07-21T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15872"},"modified":"2021-03-23T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T20:38:12","slug":"the-killers-1946-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=15872","title":{"rendered":"The Killers (1946) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z072116thekillers_poster_zview.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"768\" \/><strong>The Killers (1946)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:<strong>\u00a0 Robert Siodmak<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Anthony Veiller <\/strong>from a story by <strong>Ernest Hemingway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:<strong>\u00a0 Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O&#8217;Brien <\/strong>and<strong> William Conrad.<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pitch: \u201cLet&#8217;s make a movie based on Hemingway&#8217;s The Killers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tagline: &#8220;One Moment with Her&#8230;And He Gambled His LUCK&#8230;LOVE&#8230;and His LIFE!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two hit men show up in a small town to kill a gas station attendant known as &#8220;Swede&#8221; [Lancaster]. \u00a0When warned the hitmen are in town, Swede thanks the man but refuses to run. \u00a0He lays back down and waits for their arrival, a totally defeated man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hit men arrive. \u00a0Kill him and leave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Insurance investigator Reardon [O&#8217;Brien] gets the case and slowly begins to unravel the mystery of why hit men were sent to kill a small town nobody. \u00a0What follows is a story of mobsters, big time robberies, double-crosses and in the middle of it all a beautiful woman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The opening scene &#8211; of the hitmen at the diner is a favorite and sets the tone for a classic movie!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z072116thekillers_pic_zview.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 4 of 5 stars.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Killers (1946) Director:\u00a0 Robert Siodmak Screenplay: \u00a0Anthony Veiller from a story by Ernest Hemingway Stars:\u00a0 Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27129,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15872\/revisions\/27129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}