A not so bad "film-noir" After killing a man, two professional killers start asking themselves why the job was so easy and why didn't their victim try to run away. Soon after they discover that the man they killed was involved in a million-dollar robbery and that he double-crossed his associate. Finally, they try to find out who their employer was in order to steal the million dollars. The Ernest Hemingway's story is really great and very complex, too bad it's one of the only good points of the movie. The cast is very weak (except Lee Marvin who is excellent in his role), the action is a little slow and doesn't exploit at all the excellent plot. Nevertheless I liked that movie because it had something special that we don't see every day in cinema. First of all the main characters are two merciless bastards who killed the only good guy in the movie and what's more they killed him right at the beginning. Second: it's very convincing, I mean you don't ask yourself all the time: "Yeah right! How did they do that?". It's just not filled with stupid, exaggerated and incredible situations... all of it is very natural and simple. So even if the directing needs some improvement, I liked the movie and recommend it if you want some "quiet suspense".