In all its fury and violence...
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.
- 7.7
- 1956
- Released
- 1h 25m
Sterling Hayden
Johnny Clay
Coleen Gray
Fay
Vince Edwards
Val Cannon
Jay C. Flippen
Marvin Unger
Ted de Corsia
Randy Kennan
Marie Windsor
Sherry Peatty
Elisha Cook Jr.
George Peatty
Joe Sawyer
Mike O'Reilly
James Edwards
Track Parking Attendant
Timothy Carey
Nikki Arcane
Kola Kwariani
Maurice Oboukhoff
Jay Adler
Leo the Loanshark
Tito Vuolo
Joe Piano - motel manager
Dorothy Adams
Mrs. Ruthie O'Reilly
Herbert Ellis
2nd American Airlines Clerk
James Griffith
Mr. GrimesCecil Elliott
Lady with Small Dog
Joe Turkel
Tiny
Steve Mitchell
Brown - American Airlines ClerkMary Carroll
Woman Asking Kennan for Help
William Benedict
American Airlines Clerk
Charles Cane
Plainclothesman at Airport
Robert B. Williams
Plainclothesman at AirportTom Coleman
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
John George
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Art Gilmore
Narrator (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Carl M. Leviness
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)Sol Gorss
Track Guard Slugged by Johnny (uncredited)
Harry Hines
Chess Player (uncredited)Hal J. Moore
Race Track P.A. Announcer (uncredited)Richard Reeves
Bill - Track Employee in Locker Room (uncredited)
Frank Richards
Track Employee in Locker Room (uncredited)
Arthur Tovey
Racetrack Cashier (uncredited)Finn Zirzow
Man at Airport (uncredited)Oliver Cross
Racetrack Cashier (uncredited)Charles Fogel
Race Track Worker (uncredited)Rudy Germane
Track Officer (uncredited)
Released
en
$320,000.00
- #sniper
- #adultery
- #robbery
- #husband wife relationship
- #corruption
- #marriage crisis
- #gangster
- #ex-detainee
- #horse race
- #way of life
- #heist
- #femme fatale
- #film noir
- #bag of money
- #black and white
Reviews
Though it's Sterling Hayden who takes top billing here, it's actually Marie Windsor who steals the show as "Sherry". She is the rather money-grabbing, bullying, wife of "George" (Elisha Cook Jr). Now he works in the cashier's office at the local racetrack where "Mike" (Joe Sawyer) works behind the bar. These two are to be lynch pins in a daring plan to rob the place of two million dollars as it's
This is a bad joke without a punch line. The Killing is directed by Stanley Kubrick who co-adapts to screenplay with Jim Thompson from the novel Clean Break written by Lionel White. It stars Sterling Hayden, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook Jr, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen and Coleen Gray. Music is by Gerald Fried and cinematography by Lucien Ballard. Ex-con Johnny Clay (Hayden) has a plan to ma