The Killing (1956)

Review: The Killing (1956)

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Ted de Corsia,

Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden
Coleen Gray
Coleen Gray
Vince Edwards
Vince Edwards
Jay C. Flippen
Jay C. Flippen
Ted de Corsia
Ted de Corsia

Plot: 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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Stanley Kubrick part 1: Becoming Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick part 1: Becoming Kubrick

My first encounter with Stanley Kubrick’s work came before I was ten years old. Sometime in the early ’60s, my parents took me to see Spartacus, probably at the Odeon in Chelmsford. For years afterwards, two things stuck with me: the […]

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