The Killing (1956)

  • NR
  • 05/19/1956 (US)
  • Crime, Thriller
  • 1h 25m

In all its fury and violence...

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.

Lionel White

Novel

Stanley Kubrick

Director, Screenplay

Jim Thompson

Writer

Cast

Sterling Hayden's headshot

Sterling Hayden

Johnny Clay
Coleen Gray's headshot

Coleen Gray

Fay
Vince Edwards's headshot

Vince Edwards

Val Cannon
Jay C. Flippen's headshot

Jay C. Flippen

Marvin Unger
Ted de Corsia's headshot

Ted de Corsia

Randy Kennan
Marie Windsor's headshot

Marie Windsor

Sherry Peatty
Elisha Cook Jr.'s headshot

Elisha Cook Jr.

George Peatty
Joe Sawyer's headshot

Joe Sawyer

Mike O'Reilly

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