The Killing(Movie, 1956)

Name: The Killing
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1956
Duration: T01:25:00
Rating: 3.8

1h 25min | Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Rating: 3.8/5 (with 625 votes)

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. ()

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About The Killing

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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The Killing (1956) Original Trailer [FHD](Trailer, 1:49)

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Production country: United States of America (USA)

Based on the work of: Lionel White

Made by: United Artists, Harris-Kubrick Productions

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 24 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date GR: 06/06/1956

Cast: Sterling Hayden, Jay C. Flippen, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook Jr., Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Ted de Corsia, Timothy Carey, Joe Turkel, Joe Sawyer, Tito Vuolo, Art Gilmore, Dorothy Adams, James Edwards, James Griffith, Franklyn Farnum, Jay Adler

Narrator: Art Gilmore

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Producer: James B. Harris

Screenwriter: Stanley Kubrick, Jim Thompson, Lionel White

Director of Photography: Lucien Ballard

Composer: Gerald Fried

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Casta de malditos"

"Mislukte opzet"

"O Grande Golpe"

"Det store gangsterkup"

"Tappo"

"L'ultime razzia"

"Το χρήμα της οργής"

"Ha-Hereg"

"킬링"

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

Budget: 320,000 USD

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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The Killing(Movie, 1956)

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