Using the eponymous Hemingway story as a launching pad, director Robert Soidmak and cowriters Anthony Veiller and John Huston (uncredited) blast into hard boiled atmospherics: An insurance investigator pries into the death of the Swede, an ex-boxer, ex-con, ex-beau of the shifty Kitty. You get so caught up watching the Swede's gang pull a heist - and the double crosses unfold in deep focus and flashback - that the whodunit problem sneaks up from behind.
Review of The Killers
