The Killing
Career criminal Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) recruits a sharpshooter (Timothy Carey), a crooked police officer (Ted de Corsia), a bartender (Joe Sawyer) and a betting teller named George (Elisha Cook Jr.), among others, for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancee, Fay (Coleen Gray). But when George tells his restless wife, Sherry (Marie Windsor), about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
Release Date
May 19, 1956
Running Time
85 minutes
Rotten Tomatoes
95%
Starring
Sterling Hayden
Coleen Gray
Credits
Director Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay Stanley Kubrick, Jim Thompson
Producer James B. Harris
Cinematography Lucien Ballard
Editing Betty Steinberg
Music Gerald Fried
Distributor United Artists
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