Movie
The Killing
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1956-06-06
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- United Artists, Harris-Kubrick Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- 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
- Kola Kwariani as Maurice Oboukhoff
- Jay Adler as Leo the Loanshark
Crew
- Stanley Kubrick - Director
- Jim Thompson - Writer
- Stanley Kubrick - Screenplay
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