The Killing (1956 film)

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The Killing (1956 film) is a 1956 American film noir crime thriller directed by Stanley Kubrick that follows a meticulously planned racetrack heist and its unraveling.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American film
crime thriller film
film
film noir
heist film
basedOn Clean Break
novel by Lionel White
blackAndWhite true
castMember Coleen Gray
Elisha Cook Jr.
Jay C. Flippen
Joe Sawyer
Kola Kwariani
Marie Windsor
Sterling Hayden
Ted de Corsia
Timothy Carey
Vince Edwards
cinematographer Lucien Ballard
countryOfOrigin United States
director Stanley Kubrick
distributor United Artists
editor Betty Steinberg
follows meticulously planned racetrack robbery
genre crime film
film noir
heist film
thriller film
hasInfluenced later heist films
mainCharacter Johnny Clay
motionPictureRatingSystem unrated at original release
musicBy Gerald Fried
narrationBy Art Gilmore
narrativeStructure nonlinear timeline
notableFor early major directorial work of Stanley Kubrick
originalLanguage English
partOf Stanley Kubrick filmography
plotSummary A group of criminals plan and execute a racetrack heist that ultimately unravels.
portrayedBy Sterling Hayden
producer James B. Harris
publicationDate 1956
releaseFormat theatrical film
runtime approximately 85 minutes
screenwriter Jim Thompson
Stanley Kubrick
setting horse racetrack
studio Harris-Kubrick Pictures
theme betrayal
fate and inevitability
greed

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Johnny Clay appearsIn The Killing (1956 film)
Lionel White workAdaptedInto The Killing (1956 film)
Dorothy Adams notableWork The Killing (1956 film)