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*The Killing* is a 1956 American black-and-white film directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenwriters include Kubrick, Jim Thompson, and Lionel White, with the story based on a work by White. James B. Harris produced the film, which features a cast including Sterling Hayden, Jay C. Flippen, Marie Windsor, and Elisha Cook Jr. Lucien Ballard served as director of photography, while Gerald Fried composed the music and Art Gilmore provided narration. The film was distributed by United Artists and later made available on Netflix.
The movie has a runtime of 85 minutes and was produced with a budget of 320,000. It is classified as a heist, film noir, drama, and crime film. Critical reception includes an IMDb rating of 7.9, a Metascore of 91, and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 96%. The film received one nomination for a BAFTA Award.
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7.6Career 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.
Cast
- Sterling Hayden as Johnny Clay
- Coleen Gray as Fay
- Vince Edwards as Val Cannon
- Jay C. Flippen as Marvin Unger
- Ted de Corsia as Randy Kennan
- Marie Windsor as Sherry Peatty
Themes
- sniper
- adultery
- robbery
- husband wife relationship
- corruption
- marriage crisis
- gangster
- ex-detainee
- horse race
- way of life
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Ratings
IMDb
7.9/10
105,025 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
96%
Metacritic
91/100
- Year
- 1956
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award1 nomination total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Stanley Kubrick
- Screenplay by
- Stanley Kubrick
- Dialogue by
- Jim Thompson
- Based on
- Clean Break , by Lionel White
- Produced by
- James B. Harris
- Starring
- Sterling Hayden Coleen Gray Vince Edwards Jay C. Flippen Marie Windsor Ted de Corsia
- Cinematography
- Lucien Ballard
- Edited by
- Betty Steinberg
- Music by
- Gerald Fried
- Production company
- Harris-Kubrick Pictures Corporation
- Distributed by
- United Artists
- Release date
- May 19, 1956 ( 1956-05-19 ) (New York City)
- Running time
- 84 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $320,000
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- gangster film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Screenwriter
- Lionel White
- Cast member
- Jay Adler
- Composer
- Gerald Fried
- Producer
- James B. Harris
- Cinematographer
- Lucien Ballard
- Duration
- 85
- FilmAffinity ID
- 394545
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- The killing Trailer Title.jpg
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- publication date
- 1956-11-27
- title
- The Killing
- narrator
- Art Gilmore
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Netflix
- Commons category
- The Killing (film)
- after a work by
- Lionel White
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 7.9/10
- capital cost
- 320000
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Encyclopedic overview
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 film was Kubrick's third directorial effort and was generally well received by the critics.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Killing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.