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1975
The Killer Elite is a 1975 American action thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and written by Marc Norman and Stirling Silliphant, adapted from the Robert Syd Hopkins novel Monkey in the Middle. It stars James Caan and Robert Duvall as a pair of elite mercenaries who become bitter rivals and are caught on opposite sides of a proxy war over a foreign dignitary in the streets of San Francisco.
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When you have a legendary action director working on a script involving ninjas, what could possibly go wrong? Well, a lot, at least judging by *The Killer Elite*, the 1975 action thriller directed by Sam Peckinpah. The protagonist, played by James Caan, is Mike Locken, an employee of Communication Integrity (ComTreg), a private company that conducts “wet work” and similar delicate missions for the CIA. Mike works in…More
