tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-265307513666706251.post969025863428671734..comments2024-02-20T11:29:02.535-05:00Comments on The Dark Time: Tuesday’s Overlooked Film: “The Killers” (1946) Elgin Bleeckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08417587392887691664noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-265307513666706251.post-19201762408161462672015-10-10T14:46:46.779-04:002015-10-10T14:46:46.779-04:00The radio version and the odd amateur Russian sile...The radio version and the odd amateur Russian silent are pretty amusing as well. Ronald Reagan slapping Angie Dickinson around is pretty much my default memory of him.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-265307513666706251.post-4535206621782388092015-10-08T11:28:32.186-04:002015-10-08T11:28:32.186-04:00Thanks for the tip on the Criterion pack. Looking ...Thanks for the tip on the Criterion pack. Looking at it on-line reminded me that I have not seen director Don Siegel’s 1964 version of “The Killers” in a long, long time. What a cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, and Ronald Reagan. Elgin Bleeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08417587392887691664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-265307513666706251.post-76434137785553034452015-10-07T11:47:21.432-04:002015-10-07T11:47:21.432-04:00Yup. The utter menace generated by Conrad and McGr...Yup. The utter menace generated by Conrad and McGraw is enough to forgive the lack of verisimilitude...and filmmakers on down through David Cronenberg (notably in A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE) and the Coen Bros. (in nearly every film) have benefitted from that example of how to do so economically.<br /><br />The set Criterion built around this film is one of my favorites among their packages.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com