The Killers (1964) on Netflix
Charlie Strom and Lee are hired to kill a former race car driver who does not run. The hit men want to know why Johnny North let them shoot him.
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Plot summary
Charlie Strom and Lee shoot a man several times at a school for the blind, and he makes no move to escape. Charlie is troubled that Johnny North, who went by the name Jerry Nibbles there, did not run, and that the fee paid for the job was unusually high. Johnny had been a champion race car driver until a crash ended his career. Four years before the killing, a mail truck was robbed of more than a million dollars, and the money has not been found. Charlie and Lee travel to Miami to see Earl Sylvester, Johnny's former mechanic.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Killers (1964)
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- Ronald Reagan's last motion-picture role before entering politics was in The Killers, and it was the only villainous part of his career; he reportedly later said he regretted doing the movie.
- The Killers began as one of the early made-for-TV movies, part of a Project 120 series, and was shot as Johnny North, but NBC judged it too violent and sexual to broadcast, so Universal gave it a theatrical release instead.
- Steve McQueen and George Peppard were considered for the lead role of Johnny North in The Killers before it went to John Cassavetes.
- The Killers uses Henry Mancini music originally written for Orson Welles's Touch of Evil for its main and closing titles, re-edited from the Universal Pictures library; Nancy Wilson sang Mancini's "Too Little Time", a love theme from The Glenn Miller Story.
- After John Cassavetes was signed to play the race-car driver Johnny North, director Don Siegel discovered that the actor could barely drive.
