The Killers

I've been watching The Killers, made in 1946. It's the first film starring Burt Lancaster. He plays Ole Andreson/Pete Lund, "The Swede", who is murdered in the first few minutes of the film in a place called Brentwood, which makes sense as there's not much else to do in Brentwood.

Well, you would, wouldn't you. The film is shown mostly in flashback as an insurance investigator tries to find out why Swede was murdered.

It's a classic film noire from it's heyday, and Lancaster and Ava Gardner, probably the epitome of the femme fatale, sizzle on the screen.