The Killers

From Hollywood, the NBC Theater presents... ...the production, the killers, director Robert Siyadmak, stars, Bert Lancaster, Shelley Winters. The Hollywood screen directors present a postscript to murder, the killers, starring Bert Lancaster and Shelley Winters, and introducing the director of the film, Robert Siyadmak.

It's not always necessary to have lived a fabulous life in order to create fabulous motion pictures. But in the case of August, screen director tonight, it most certainly has helped. At 19 he was a seasoned Shakespearean actor, at 20, director of the Dresden Germany Stock Exchange, at 21, Rich, at 23, broke again. At 24 he launched the brilliant motion picture career that was to bring him

to Hollywood, the director such thrilling films as Dark Mirror, Spiral Staircase, and tonight's story, The Killers. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Robert Siaatmaft. Thank you. Hollywood has given the world two kinds of motion pictures which are typically American.

They are the western and the gangster films such as the Killers. This is not to say that America is a country of gangsters, anymore is the country of cowboys. It means only that America has created a new and fascinating kind of entertainment.

Such is our story. That instant is drama. Now here is the Killers, starring Bert Lancaster in his original role of Sweet and Shelley Winter as Kitty. Sweet as me, Nick. It's Nick. What are you doing laying down, sweet?

You sick? No. Listen, sweet. I was down in Georgia's diner when two hard guys came in looking for you. They said they were looking for you to kill you. I know. Then what are you laying here for?

There's nothing I can do. Don't you want me to go and see the police? I wouldn't do any good. Couldn't you get out of town? I'm through with running away. But why? Why do they want to kill you?