Fresh
Faultless and enjoyable.
David Thomson, The New Republic
The Killing
In all its fury and violence...
1956 · 1h 25m · Approved
Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Stanley Kubrick
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.
Director and cast
- Stanley Kubrick Director
- Sterling Hayden as Johnny Clay
- Coleen Gray as Fay
- Vince Edwards as Val Cannon
- Jay C. Flippen as Marvin Unger
- Ted de Corsia as Randy Kennan
- Marie Windsor as Sherry Peatty
- Elisha Cook Jr. as George Peatty
- Joe Sawyer as Mike O'Reilly
- James Edwards as Track Parking Attendant
- Timothy Carey as Nikki Arcane
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
96%
Tomatometer
Fresh
[The film] at first tends to be somewhat confusing, soon settles into a tense and suspenseful vein which carries through to an unexpected and ironic windup.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Arguably Stanley Kubrick's most perfectly conceived and executed film.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Characteristically Kubrick in both its mechanistic coldness and its vision of human endeavour undone by greed and deceit, this noir-ish heist movie is nevertheless far more satisfying than most of his later work.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
An engrossing little adventure.
A.H. Weiler, New York Times
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- Runtime
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- Director
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- Cast
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Metacritic
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