Movies - The Killers

Interesting facts

• The 1964 Killers was the first movie ever to be "made for TV
  ", but NBC judged it too violent to broadcast, and Universal released the movie in theaters instead.
• Don Siegel had been hired, then replaced, as director of the 1946 film noir adaptation of the same story (see The Killers (1946 film)
  ).
• During filming, according to the DVD commentary, leading lady Angie Dickinson
  received the news that her friend (and rumored romantic partner) President John F. Kennedy had been shot and killed.
• This was Ronald Reagan
  's last acting role before entering politics, and the only bad-guy role in his career. According to Kirk Douglas
  ' autobiography The Ragman's Son, Reagan hated the movie because of a scene in which he slapped Dickinson. Reagan thought the film would hurt his political career.
• Actress Virginia Christine
  had also been in the 1946 version
  .

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