The Killing (2-DVD)
In All Its Fury and Violence...
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 16, 2011
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Sterling Hayden & Coleen Gray | |
| Performer: | Marie Windsor, Jay C. Flippen, Timothy Carey, Elisha Cook, Jr. & Vince Edwards | |
| Directed by | Stanley Kubrick | |
| Edited by | Betty Steinberg | |
| Screenwriting by | Stanley Kubrick & Jim Thompson | |
| Composition by | Gerald Fried | |
| Produced by | James B. Harris | |
| Director of Photography: | Lucien Ballard |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: A+ --
The Killing (1956) is a stylish but stark film noir crime drama, and the definitive heist-caper movie - a story of greed and infidelity. The classic, dark-edged black and white film was 28 year-old writer/director Stanley Kubrick's third film
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AMC Filmsite
Rating: 4/4 --
Underneath The Killing's clockwork violence is a pungent layer of irony, something Kubrick would further explore many times later in his career.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The first genuinely great film by Stanley Kubrick...
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Reel Film Reviews
[T]he young Kubrick had an eye for great character actors, which in THE KILLING includes Jay C. Flippen, Elisha Cook Jr., and Timothy Carey...
A.V. Club
Rating: A --
Plotted with the kind of Swiss-watch precision and attention to detail that would eventually get Kubrick labeled Hollywood's most notorious perfectionist.
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Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 5/5 --
This taut crime picture was one of the earliest films in the career of Stanley Kubrick, but something of the director's voice and characteristic preoccupations are already evident here.
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Times (UK)
...This is bravura filmmaking. It's not just the formal brilliance that makes the film so distinctive, but the affection and wry humor with which Kubrick portrays his low-life protagonists...
Sight and Sound
Product Description:
Sterling Hayden stars in Stanley Kubrick's crime noir classic, THE KILLING, based on crime Lionel White's novel CLEAN BREAK. Hayden plays Johnny Clay, an ex-con with a plan to steal $2 million from a San Francisco racetrack. He assembles an odd collection of tough guys and moles to participate in the heist. But just as there is no such thing as the perfect murder, there is no such thing as the perfect crime...
The film features terrific performances from Hayden, Elisha Cook, Marie Windsor, and the rest of the talented cast. Kubrick, who brought in pulp writer Jim Thompson to create the perfect dialogue, tells the story with a nonlinear, fractured-time narrative, following each of the main characters separately as they prepare for the big day. Featuring Kubrick's flawless direction and wonderfully atmospheric photography, anchored by a jazz-tinged score by Gerald Fried, THE KILLING is one of the most intense noir heist films ever made.
The film features terrific performances from Hayden, Elisha Cook, Marie Windsor, and the rest of the talented cast. Kubrick, who brought in pulp writer Jim Thompson to create the perfect dialogue, tells the story with a nonlinear, fractured-time narrative, following each of the main characters separately as they prepare for the big day. Featuring Kubrick's flawless direction and wonderfully atmospheric photography, anchored by a jazz-tinged score by Gerald Fried, THE KILLING is one of the most intense noir heist films ever made.
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