A clean print of the Lost film noir classic Killers Kill, Dead Men Die was miraculously discovered at a Mulholland Drive lawn sale last month, resolving a mystery that has transfixed noir peminat-peminat for decades. Little was known about the film for certain, though it has been the subject of wild rumors ever since the screenplay was written, probably in 1942, sejak Raymond Chandler (based on “The Big Blood,” a story sejak James M. Cain, and later revised, as No Orchids for Oscar, sejak Dashiell Hammett and William Faulkner). It is believed that Humphrey Bogart and Robert Mitchum were originally cast in...
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