The Killing

1956 · directed by Stanley Kubrick

Rating

84/100

Hit

yes

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.

The Killing (1956), directed by Stanley Kubrick, rates 84/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Sterling Hayden
• Coleen Gray
• Vince Edwards
• Jay C. Flippen
• Ted de Corsia
• Marie Windsor
• Elisha Cook Jr.
• Joe Sawyer
• James Edwards
• Timothy Carey

Crew

• Lucien Ballard — Director of Photography
• Betty Steinberg — Editor
• Gerald Fried — Original Music Composer
• Stanley Kubrick — Screenplay

More from Stanley Kubrick

1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) — 99/100 · hit
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) — 95/100 · hit
3. Spartacus (1960) — 94/100 · hit
4. A Clockwork Orange (1971) — 93/100 · hit
5. Barry Lyndon (1975) — 93/100 · hit
6. Paths of Glory (1957) — 91/100 · hit

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