Ernest Hemingway's The killers [videorecording] / Universal Pictures ; Mark Hellinger Productions ; screenplay by Anthony Veiller ; produced by Mark Hellinger ; directed by Robert Siodmak. Ernest Hemingingway's the killers ; Universal Studios ; screenplay by Gene L. Coon ; produced and directed by Donald Siegel.

Other Titles: Killers.

Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2003.

ISBN: 1559409312

Description: 2 videodiscs (102 min., 94 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Series: Criterion collection ; 176

Subject: Feature films.
Film noir.
Detective and mystery films.

Performers: 1946 version: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner ; 1964 version: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavettes, Clu Gulager, Ronald Reagan.

Notes: Based on the short story, The killers, by Ernest Hemingway.
Originally released as motion pictures in 1946 and 1964.
Special edition double-disc set features The killers (1946) and The killers (1964). Includes Andrei Tarkovsky's 1956 student film version of The killers.

Summary: Melodramatic thriller based on the Hemingway story about two hit men who become curious about the life and death of the man they were hired to kill.