Arthur Banks (Character in Desert Saints)

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Desert Saints Character
Name: Arthur Banks
Profession: Hitman for hire
Portrayed By: Kiefer Sutherland
Portrayed In: Desert Saints
Weapon: High Stand .22 caliber

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Arthur moments after he is betrayed.
Arthur moments after he is betrayed.

Arthur Banks is a character in the 2002 film Desert Saints, played by Kiefer Sutherland. A renowned hitman, who after a career of some 20 years is undermined by a female hitchiker, Bennie Harper, with whom he develops a relationship. Eventually she turns on him and shoots him in the hand as he is about to kill a man. They separate, but by the end of the film he finds and shoots her.

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