The Killing Movie Review 1956

The dirty, harsh, street-level big heist epic that established Kubrick and presented its genre with a new and vivid existentialist aura, as an ex-con engineers the rip-off of a racetrack with disastrous results. Displays characteristic nonsentimental sharp-edged Kubrick vision. Based on the novel "Clean Break" by Lionel White.

Distribution

MGM Home Entertainment, 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404-6061, Phone: (310)449-3000, Fax: (310)449-3100, URL: http://www.mgmhomevideo.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 83 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Scams, Stings & Cons, Heists, Film Noir, Ex-Cons, Crime Doesn't Pay

Screenplay

Stanley Kubrick, Jim Thompson

Cast

Sterling Hayden, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook, Jay C. Flippen, Vince Edwards, Timothy Carey, Coleen Gray, Joseph (Joe) Sawyer, Ted de Corsia, James Edwards, Jay Adler, Kola Kwarian, Joe Turkel

Cinematography

Lucien Ballard

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Music

Gerald Fried

Producer

United Artists, Harris-Kubrick