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Bookmark this pageThe Lineup (1958)
Director: Don Siegel
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Psycho-killers Julian and Dancer (Keith and Wallach) are hired to recover a heroin haul. Among their professional touches is noting down their victim's last words ('Why be greedy?'). But they can be unprofessional too - like wanting to know more about The Man who hired them. From this premise of hitmen rising above their station, Siegel was later to remake The Killers. But this b/w B version, with its passionless psychos stalking San Francisco, is the more brutal, sadistic and threatening. DMacp.Author: DMacp
Cast & crew
Director: Don Siegel
Producer: Frank Cooper
Cast: Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, Warner Anderson, Emile Meyer, Richard Jaeckel, Mary LaRoche, William Leslie full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 86 mins
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