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The Killing

Cast

Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen View All


Crew

Stanley Kubrick (Screenplay), Stanley Kubrick (Director) View All

Release: Jun. 6th, 1956
Runtime: 1 hour, 25 minutes
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
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Thief
Kubrick's approach to The Killing is methodical and one can say, distant, as we see all the preparations for the heist.
Torgo
Just like Paths of Glory could be described as a "thinking person's war movie" and 2001: A Space Odyssey a "thinking person's science fiction movie," the descriptor also applies to this heist movie.
TheUsualSuspect
The Killing is early Kubrick, so early it felt like a Hitchcock film to me.
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