Part of the Emory Cinematheque Series: “Dark Streets and Dangerous Dames."
1946, directed by Robert Siodmak; produced by Mark Hellinger; written by Anthony Veiller (and John Huston) from a story by Ernest Hemingway; cinematography by Elwood Bredell, music by Miklós Rózsa; starring Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien.
According to Hemingway, his shortest of short stories (3,000 words) "probably had more left out of it than anything I ever wrote." Producer Hellinger and director Siodmak took the writer's story about two gunmen who go into a diner looking for a boxer named Swede and built a complicated flashback narrative that explains what Hemingway "left out."