---
title: 'The Killer Elite (1975)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Sam Peckinpah'
released: '1975-12-17'
runtime_minutes: 114
genres:
  - 'Action'
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-killer-elite-1975'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073240/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Killer Elite (1975)

1975 · 114 min · Action, Thriller · United States


## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Sam Peckinpah](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-peckinpah)
- **Screenplay:** [Stirling Silliphant](https://cinepixo.com/people/stirling-silliphant), [Marc Norman](https://cinepixo.com/people/marc-norman)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Jerry Fielding](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerry-fielding)
- **Producer:** [Martin Baum](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-baum), [Arthur Lewis](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-lewis)
- **Director of Photography:** [Philip H. Lathrop](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-h-lathrop)
- **Editor:** [Monte Hellman](https://cinepixo.com/people/monte-hellman)

## Cast

- [Burt Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/burt-young)
- [Tom Clancy](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-clancy)
- [Gig Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/gig-young)
- [Tiana Alexandra](https://cinepixo.com/people/tiana-alexandra)
- [Arthur Hill](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-hill)
- [James Caan](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-caan)
- [George Cheung](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-cheung)
- [Robert Duvall](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-duvall)
- [Bo Hopkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/bo-hopkins)
- [Helmut Dantine](https://cinepixo.com/people/helmut-dantine)
- [Mako](https://cinepixo.com/people/mako)
- [Victor Sen Yung](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-sen-yung)

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