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The Killing is a 1956 American film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick and produced by James B. Harris. It was written by Kubrick and Jim Thompson and based on Lionel White 's novel Clean Break . It stars Sterling Hayden , Coleen Gray , and Vince Edwards , and features Marie Windsor , Elisha Cook Jr. , Jay C. Flippen and Timothy Carey .
The Killing: Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen. Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.
An expertly crafted noir with more on its mind than stylishly staged violence, The Killing establishes Stanley Kubrick as a filmmaker of uncommon vision and control. Read Critics Reviews
- Crime, Drama
Jan 9, 2012 · The movie is narrated in an exact, passionless voice by the uncredited Art Gilmore, a veteran radio announcer. He places great emphasis on precise dates and times of day, although really only one day and time are crucial--4 p. m., the starting time of a $100,000 high stakes horse race.
Aug 15, 2019 · The Killing is a 1956 film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick and produced by James B. Harris. It was written by Kubrick and Jim Thompson and based on the novel Clean Break by Lionel White.
The Killing: Created by Veena Sud. With Mireille Enos, Joel Kinnaman, Billy Campbell, Liam James. A police investigation, the saga of a grieving family, and a Seattle mayoral campaign all interlock after the body of 17-year-old Rosie Larsen is found in the trunk of a submerged car.
The Killing. Stanley Kubrick’s account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood’s tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson, and a phenomenal cast of character actors, including Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Timothy Carey, Elisha Cook Jr., and ...
Ex-con Johnny Clay (Hayden) has a plan to make a killing at the racetrack, with some special inside help he plots to nab $2 million in an intricate robbery. It looks a good thing, the right people are in place, but there's a potential spanner in...
After just being released from a five-year stint in prison, Johnny Clay has assembled a five-man team, including two insiders, to carry out what he estimates will be a $2 million heist at Lansdowne Racetrack, the take to be split five ways, minus expenses.
In The Killing, this Kubrickian fatalism leads to a climax as bloody and memorable as any the movies have given us (on view in Chapter 16). It’s as if a sensational tabloid item suddenly turned itself into a Jacobean revenge tragedy—horror with a sense of grandeur.
