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The Killing

1956

Rank

380

Score

78.75

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Added

4/29/21

Noir Crime Drama Cult film

Kubrick follows the story of a crook who assembles a team to attempt a racetrack robbery as his last job before going straight and getting married to his fiancée, who in turn has plans of her own.
Kubrick creates a stylish ironic noir with themes of greed and infidelity that make it particularly dramatic.

DIRECTOR

Stanley Kubrick

American (with Jewish heritage : Austrian, Romanian /Russian) director, producer, screenwriter and photographer (1928-1999).

CAST

Sterling Hayden

American (1916–1986)

Coleen Gray

American (1922–2015)

Vince Edwards

American (1928–1996)

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