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Show The Killers Now at Centre Ernest Heminway's famed short story, "The Killers," has been translated to the screen by Producer Mark Hellinger, who is himself a noted short story writer, and is currently playing play-ing at the Centre Theatre The tense, human drama features fea-tures a trio of young, dynamic players in Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner and Edmond O'Brien. Robert Siodmak, director of "The Spiral Staircase" and other suspense melocframas. directed "The Killers." The picture is the first for Hellinger as an independent indepen-dent producer. Universal is releasing re-leasing the film. True Hemingway Style In true Hemingway style, all the picture's characters are sharply etched and leave a definite defi-nite impact on the mind. The central figure is an insurance ' man, played by O'Brien, whose j attempt to settle a small claim ' leads him to the uncovering of a long-disbanded group of crimi nals. Shapely Ava Gardner is the sullen but beautiful woman in the story and Burt Lancaster, ' sensational newcomer front the ! stage, plays Swede, the curiously i resigned murder victim in the Hemingway tale. Lancaster, whose initial appearance ap-pearance is in "The Killers," is being hailed as the "post-war" type of leading man. Paigged, sincere and a "man's man." he is one of the first ex-G. I.'s to hit the starring trail in Hollywood. Play Proffessional Killers . The film also introduces the moon-faced William Conrad and the icy-eyed Charles MeGraw, who play Max and Al. respectively, respec-tively, .the professional killers ecrated by Hemingway's brilliant bril-liant imagination. In the strong supporting cast are Albeit Dekker, the popular Sam Levene, John Miljan. Virginia Vir-ginia Christine, Yince Burnett and others. The film has a haunting new song. "The More I Know of Love," sung by Miss Gardner. It is by Jack Brooks and Miklos Rosza. |