The Killing

Updated: 18 Jul 2022

Directors:

Stanley Kubrick Lionel White Stanley Kubrick Jim Thompson James B. Harris Gerald Fried Lucien Ballard Betty Steinberg Howard Joslin Alexander Singer Harry Reif Lillian Shore Clarence Eurist Milton Carter Karl Brainard Rex Lipton Earl Snyder Dave Koehler Louis DeWitt Jack Rabin Fred Gabourie Gilbert D. Marchant Richard Towers Don Turner Robert Littlefield

Actors:

Sterling Hayden Coleen Gray Vince Edwards Jay C. Flippen Elisha Cook Jr. Marie Windsor Ted de Corsia Joe Sawyer James Edwards Timothy Carey Joe Turkel Jay Adler Kola Kwariani Tito Vuolo Dorothy Adams James Griffith Herbert Ellis Cecil Elliott Steve Mitchell Mary Carroll William Benedict Charles Cane Robert Williams Tom Coleman Rodney Dangerfield Franklyn Farnum John George Art Gilmore Kenner G. Kemp Carl M. Leviness Sol Gorss Harry Hines Hal J. Moore Harvey Parry Richard Reeves Frank Richards Arthur Tovey

Genre:

Crime

Country: no data

Year: 1956

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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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Hideo Kojima

Director, Screenwriter, Designer

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189 FLIISTs

4 years ago

Start watching Kubrick’s THE KILLING now.

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Roger Ebert

TV Host, Journalist

11 followers

63 FLIISTs

4 years ago

I wouldn't think of giving away the game. The writing and editing are the keys to how this film never seems to be the deceptive assembly that it is, but appears to be proceeding on schedule, whatever that schedule is. We accept even action that makes absolutely no sense, as in a crucial moment involving Nikki the sharpshooter.

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Seth Rogen

Actor, Director

28 followers

103 FLIISTs

over 3 years ago

If you like Reservoir Dogs, check out The Killing. Kubrick’s non-linear film about a horse track heist with an eccentric team of thieves is awesome and incredibly fast paced for a movie from the 50’s. (Feels like Network was inspired by the narrator a bit too maybe?)

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Ben Affleck

Actor, Director

10 followers

60 FLIISTs

over 3 years ago

I don’t know if that was one of Stanley Kubrick’s favorite of his movies, but I felt, watching it, even though it’s an older movie, the brutal realness of what was happening. It never felt like a movie, it always felt like you were watching something real, a documentary about it or something. And I think that is the best feeling you can get. Obviously, there are Kubrick scholars who go on and on about it, but to me it’s just a question of impact and the dramatic integrity of it, and in that sense it ranks up there with anything.

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