The Killing poster
Director Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay Stanley Kubrick
Writer Jim Thompson

The Killing

Tagline: In all its fury and violence...

Release Date: 1956-06-06

Duration: 85 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Marie Windsor
    Sherry Peatty
  • Sterling Hayden
    Johnny Clay
  • James Griffith
    Mr. Grimes
  • Coleen Gray
    Fay
  • Jay C. Flippen
    Marvin Unger
  • John George
    Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
  • Arthur Tovey
    Racetrack Cashier (uncredited)
  • Joe Turkel
    Tiny
  • Joe Sawyer
    Mike O'Reilly
  • Elisha Cook Jr.
    George Peatty