The Killers - Old Time Crime Radio

This week The Shiver Show brings you The Killers, a 1949 episode from NBC Theatre / Screen Directors’ Playhouse. Based on a short story by Ernest Hemingway, and directed for radio by Robert Siodmak, this production features Burt Lancaster reprising his film role, Shelley Winters as femme fatale, Kitty, and William Conrad as crime boss, Jim Colefax. Tense and raw with moral ambiguity, The Killers tells the story of two hit men sent to execute a prizefighter known as “the Swede” who choos...