The Killing
by Stanley Kubrick
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Actor: Coleen Gray, Elisha Cook Jr., Jay C. Flippen, Sterling Hayden, Vince EdwardsDirector: Stanley Kubrick
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-06-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Killing
Movie Review: Classic Early Noir From A Master
Summary: 4 Stars
Stanley Kubrick's third film, 1956's The Killing is a small noir masterpiece. Starring Sterling Hayden as Johnny Clay this film has been copied many times by many great directors including Quentin Tarantino.
The film follows the exploits of a small band of criminals as they attempt to pull off a race track robbery. This is perhaps the most tightly plotted film that I have seen in many years and the dialog, penned by Kubrick with the help of Jim Thompson is nearly perfect. The performances by the cast are spot on.
It must be remembered that this is classic Hollywood B-moviemaking but Kubrick's genius with non linear storytelling shines through like a diamond in the rough. While it may seem dated at times with its heavy voice over narration it is a film experience that should not be missed.
The low priced MGM disc is a bare bones affair that features a trailer. The picture is in full screen format (which was the correct shooting ratio) and the sound is mono but acceptable. Lucien Ballard's photography is stark and at times overlit but it suits this material perfectly.
This is a film that needs to be seen by any serious film student.
Summary of The Killing
Stanley Kubrick's third feature, and first screen classic, is one of the great crime films of the 1950s. The Killing was written in collaboration with Jim Thompson, who penned pulp novels like The Grifters, The Killer Inside Me, and Pop. 1280, all of which were made into classic films. This time writing directly for the screen, Thompson joined with Kubrick to concoct a story about a desperate gang of lowlifes led by a grim, determined Sterling Hayden. Together they devise and execute a complex racetrack robbery, but inner tensions and the iron fist of fate work against them. The cast is uniformly superb, with Hayden, Jay C. Flippen, Timothy Carey, Marie Windsor, and Elisha Cook Jr. fleshing out characters torn between grandiose ambition and petty desire. Cinematographer Lucian Ballard fashions distorted, starkly lit interiors that reflect the psychological tensions of the characters. He and Kubrick also create one of the most memorably ironic final sequences in film history.The Killing is a perfect introduction to the art and joys of film noir, and its bizarre narrative structure has been copied many times since. For a terrific double feature, see it with John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle, another noir masterpiece featuring Hayden; or Paths of Glory, Kubrick's next picture, again cowritten with Thompson; or even Jackie Brown, in which Quentin Tarantino pays homage to the ways this film leaps around in time. More commercial than some of Kubrick's later work, The Killing remains a tour de force by one of the world's finest filmmakers. --Raphael Shargel
When ex-con Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) says he has a plan to make a killing everybody wants to be in on the action. Especially when the plan is to steal $2 million in a racetrack robbery scheme in which "no one will get hurt." But despite all their careful plotting Clay and his men have overlooked one thing: Sherry Peatty (Marie Windsor) a money-hungry double-crossing dame who's planning to make a financial killing of her own...even if she has to wipe out Clay's entire gang to do it!System Requirements:Starring: Vince Edwards Jay C. Flippen Colleen Gray Sterling Hayden Marie Windsor Directed By: Stanley Kubrick Running Time: 89 Min. Color Copyright 2003 MGM Studios.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: NR UPC: 027616770622
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