The Killing
Stellar Kubrick film noir. Underrated crime thriller -- one of his great, early works. Sterling Hayden shines (as he would years later in Dr. Strangelove) as a criminal mastermind who schemes to rob a horse track on race day. Intricately plotted and with nothing left to chance, he almost gets away with it.
Note this story was quite literally stolen four years later to be made as the campy Ocean's Eleven.
Rating
4.0 out of 5 Stars
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- Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Producer: James B. Harris
- Screenwriter: Stanley Kubrick
- Stars: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Ted de Corsia, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook Jr.
- MPAA Rating: NR
- Year of Release: 1956
- Released on Video: 01/01/1990
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