| Film noir-style crime thriller |
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| written by eifert |
June 18, 2004 - 8:59 PM PDT |
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| The story, based on Hemingway's short, is a tale told in flashback. The gritty dark film looks at the events leading up to a violent death of one of the leads. The best scene in the film is the first one. The two killers walk out of the darkness and into a diner. Their dialog with the diner owner and customer is chilling. They're there to kill a man they never met. The movie expands the gritty crime tale from there. Burt Lancaster and an unbelievably perfect Ava Gardner star in this, one of the great noir films. Remade with Lee Marvin and Ronald Reagan years later. |
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