The Killing

The Killing

1956 · 85 min · EN · NR · 7.6 (1,714 votes)
Dir. Stanley Kubrick · Starring Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Ted de Corsia, Marie Windsor · Music Gerald Fried

In all its fury and violence...

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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.

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A taut, relentless descent into a meticulously planned heist that unravels with cynical precision. It's a gritty, fatalistic ride through the shadows of ambition and betrayal, where every character feels caught in a web of their own making, underscored by classic noir tension.

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