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06/06/1956 Crime, Thriller, Drama 1h 25m
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In all its fury and violence...

Overview

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.

  1. Stanley Kubrick

    Director

  2. Jim Thompson

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Sterling Hayden

    Johnny Clay

  2. Coleen Gray

    Fay

  3. Vince Edwards

    Val Cannon

  4. Jay C. Flippen

    Marvin Unger

  5. Ted de Corsia

    Randy Kennan

  6. Marie Windsor

    Sherry Peatty

  7. Elisha Cook Jr.

    George Peatty

  8. Joe Sawyer

    Mike O'Reilly

  9. James Edwards

    Track Parking Attendant

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2019-03-14
This is a bad joke without a punch line.

The Killing is directed by Stanley Kubrick who co-adapts to screenplay with Jim Thompson from the novel Clean Break written by Lionel White. It stars Sterling Hayden, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook Jr, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen and Coleen Gray. Music is by Gerald Fried and cinematography by Lucien Ballard.

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 i...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$320,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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