
Out of the Past(1947)
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.


“She's a match for any mobster!”
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

Edmond O'Brien
Jim Reardon

Burt Lancaster
'Swede' Andersen

Ava Gardner
Kitty Collins

Albert Dekker
Big Jim Colfax

Sam Levene
Lt. Sam Lubinsky

Vince Barnett
Charleston

Virginia Christine
Lilly Harmon Lubinsky

Jack Lambert
'Dum-Dum' Clarke

Charles D. Brown
Packy Robinson - Ole's Manager

Donald MacBride
R.S. Kenyon
The Killers is a crime, mystery, thriller film released in 1946 exploring themes of small town, new jersey, gas station, boxer, heist, femme fatale. Directed by Robert Siodmak, it stars Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner. Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
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