The Killing [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

The Killing [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden
, Coleen Gray
Coleen Gray
, Vince Edwards
Vince Edwards
, Jay C. Flippen
Jay C. Flippen
Stanley Kubrick
The Killing [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

The Killing [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Stanley Kubrick Cast: Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden
, Coleen Gray
Coleen Gray
, Vince Edwards
Vince Edwards
, Jay C. Flippen
Jay C. Flippen
Stanley Kubrick

Blu-ray (Black & White)

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Overview

The Killing is an intense, dark mystery which explores man's fallibility and how plans fall apart due to greed, corruption and human error. Small-time criminal, ex-convict Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) along with his partners, plans and successfully pulls off a race-track robbery. The get-away is complicated by a murder, and a scheming woman, Sherry Peatty (Marie Windsor) who pits the men against each other. Director Stanley Kubrick employs a raw, nervy narrative style, using flash-forwards and flash-backs, which, while interesting, sometimes seem overly complicated and forced. Despite this, Kubrick's unusual visual sense, which he will later develop to stunning effect in 2001: A Space Odyssey, is strikingly apparent. This film, well acted, particularly by Sterling Hayden, and Marie Windsor, as the scheming, unfaithful wife and strikingly directed, is an interesting experiment with the film noir style. The Killing will also be of interest to fans of Kubrick as he begins his exploration of the fallibility of "fail-safe" devices which he developed so eloquently in the extraordinary, hilarious Dr. Strangelove.

Product Details

Release Date: 08/16/2011
UPC: 0715515085618
Original Release: 1956
Rating: NR
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: A
Presentation: [B&W]
Language: English
Time: 1:24:00
Sales rank: 8,378

Special Features

Video interview with producer James B. Harris; Excerpted interviews with actor Sterling Hayden from the French television series Cinéma cinémas; Video interview with poet and author Robert Polito about writer Jim Thompson; Restored high-definition digital transfer of Stanley Kubrick's 1955 noir feature Killer's Kiss; New video appreciation of Killer's Kiss featuring film critic Geoffrey O'Brien; Trailers

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Sterling Hayden Johnny Clay
Coleen Gray Fay
Vince Edwards Val Cannon,Black Man
Jay C. Flippen Marvin Unger
Marie Windsor Sherry Peatty
Ted de Corsia Randy Kennan
Elisha Cook Jr. George Peatty
Joe Sawyer Mike O'Reilly
Timothy Carey Nikki Arane
Jay Adler Leo
Joseph Turkel Tiny,Tiny
Maurice Oboukhoff Kola Kwarian
Billy Benedict Airline Clerk
Rodney Dangerfield Actor
Tito Vuolo Actor
Dorothy Adams Actor
Herbert Ellis Actor
Mary Carroll Actor
James Griffith Actor
Kola Kwarian Maurice Oboukhoff
Steve Mitchell Actor
Robert Williams Actor
Gerald Fried Composer

Technical Credits
Stanley Kubrick Director,Screenwriter
James B. Harris Producer
Jim Thompson Screenwriter
David Koehler Special Effects
Earl Snyder Sound/Sound Designer
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