The Killers premiered

August 28, 1946
Universal’s film-noir classic version of Ernest Hemingway’s story, The Killers, opened in NYC on this date.

After leaving Warner Brothers for Universal with The Killers, producer Mark Hellinger initially wanted to borrow Warners director Don Siegel, but the loanout fee proved prohibitively high for a director of his limited reputation at that time, so Hellinger used Universal’s Robert Siodmak. Ironically, almost 20 years later Siegel did go on to direct the remake, The Killers.

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