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The Killing (1956)

The Killing (1956)

Drama Crime Thriller

In all its fury and violence...

Release Date: 1956, June 6
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
Countries: United States of America
Production: United Artists, Harris-Kubrick Productions
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Dorothy Adams, Steve Mitchell, Arthur Tovey, Oliver Cross, Franklyn Farnum, Rudy Germane, Joe Turkel, Tom Coleman, Finn Zirzow, Charles Fogel, Art Gilmore

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.

Keywords:

robbery gangster film noir femme fatale adultery heist corruption black and white husband wife relationship marriage crisis sniper horse race bag of money ex-detainee way of life