
Overview:
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.Status: | Released (1956-06-06) |
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Awards: | Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award1 nomination total |
Screen: | Stanley Kubrick, Jim Thompson, Lionel White |
Productions: | United Artists, Harris-Kubrick Productions |
Production Countries: | United States of America |
Spoken Languages: | English |

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- 3088: Sterling Hayden - Johnny Clay
- 3336: Coleen Gray - Fay
- 3337: Vince Edwards - Val Cannon
- 3338: Jay C. Flippen - Marvin Unger
- 2097: Ted de Corsia - Randy Kennan
- 3340: Marie Windsor - Sherry Peatty
- 3339: Elisha Cook Jr. - George Peatty
Crews
- 3334: Lionel White - Novel - Writing
- 3350: Gerald Fried - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 3352: Betty Steinberg - Editor - Editing
- 240: Stanley Kubrick - Director - Directing
- 240: Stanley Kubrick - Screenplay - Writing
- 3351: Lucien Ballard - Director of Photography - Camera
- 3349: James B. Harris - Producer - Production
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John Chard
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This is a bad joke without a punch line. The Killing is directed by Stanley Kubrick who co-adapts to screenplay with Jim Thompson from the novel Clean Break written by Lionel White. It stars Sterling Hayden, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook Jr, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen and Coleen G ....
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Though it's Sterling Hayden who takes top billing here, it's actually Marie Windsor who steals the show as "Sherry". She is the rather money-grabbing, bullying, wife of "George" (Elisha Cook Jr). Now he works in the cashier's office at the local racetrack where "Mike" (Joe Sawyer) wo ....
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