THE KILLER ELITE (1975)

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• Release Year: 1975
• Genre: Action, Drama, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: As steady hands carefully wire a bomb and meticulously set the timer to the eerie sounds of children singing in the background, and as the deadly device explodes, ruptaring a building into fragments and splintering the tranquility of the theatre, the cinematic genius of the Oscar® -nominated writer/director of The Wild Bunch comes to startling life. Featuring 'a first rate cast' (Los Angeles Times) headed by Academy Award™ nominee James Cran and Oscar® -winner Robert Duvall, this sinister action-thriller 'aim[s] at the jugular' (Cue) and 'rivets you to the screen' (Cosmpolotin)! Elite assassians mike Locken (Caan) and George Hansen (Duvall) take on jobs too risky for even the CIA to handle. They're best friends, superior marksmen and on the A-list when it comes to killing. But when one high-powered hitman betrays another, the intrigue, the violence and the thrills become more than a dangerous game of who-kills-whom first....it becomes a ver personal war!
• Cast: James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill, Bo Hopkins, Mako, Burt Young, Gig Young, Tom Clancy, Tiana Alexandra, Walter Kelley, Kate Heflin, Sondra Blake, Carole Mallory, James Wing Woo, George Cheung, Hank Hamilton, Victor Sen Yung, Tak Kubota, Rick Alemany, Johnnie Burrell, Billy J. Scott, Simon Tam, Arnold Fortgang, Tommy Bush, Matthew Peckinpah, Eddy Donno, Kim Kahana, Eddie White, Gary Combs, Wilfred Tsang, Wilton Shoong, Alan Keller, Charles Titone, Joseph Glenn, Eloise Shoong, Mel Cenizal, Kuo Lien Ying, Helmut Dantine, Uschi Digard, Andy Epper, Sam Peckinpah
• Director: Sam Peckinpah
• Runtime: 2:03
• Company: United Artists, Lewis-Baum/Dantine Production, Exeter Associates, MGM Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie