The Killing (Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 16, 2011
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sterling Hayden & Coleen Gray | |
Performer: | Vince Edwards, Timothy Carey, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook, Jr. & Jay C. Flippen | |
Directed by | Stanley Kubrick | |
Edited by | Betty Steinberg | |
Screenwriting by | Stanley Kubrick & Jim Thompson | |
Composition by | Gerald Fried | |
Produced by | James B. Harris | |
Director of Photography: | Lucien Ballard |
Entertainment Reviews:
Faultless and enjoyable.
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The New Republic
Unequivocally represents the genesis of Kubrick's insightful mindset. It is a living, breathing laboratory of precision and control.
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Cinemaphile.org
Arguably Stanley Kubrick's most perfectly conceived and executed film.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 10/10 --
One of the undisputed high-water marks of the American crime film whose reverberations can still be felt in a number of ways.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
With its sliding-through-walls Ophuls-like shots passing along railroad flats, it was Kubrick's most polished to date, the calling card that led to PATHS OF GLORY, and further glories.
Sight and Sound
...This is bravura filmmaking. It's not just the formal brilliance that makes the film so distinctive, but the affection and wry humor with which Kubrick portrays his low-life protagonists...
Sight and Sound
[T]he young Kubrick had an eye for great character actors, which in THE KILLING includes Jay C. Flippen, Elisha Cook Jr., and Timothy Carey...
A.V. Club
Product Description:
Sterling Hayden stars in Stanley Kubrick's crime noir classic, THE KILLING, based on crime Lionel White's novel CLEAN BREAK. Hayden plays Johnny Clay, an ex-con with a plan to steal $2 million from a San Francisco racetrack. He assembles an odd collection of tough guys and moles to participate in the heist. But just as there is no such thing as the perfect murder, there is no such thing as the perfect crime...
The film features terrific performances from Hayden, Elisha Cook, Marie Windsor, and the rest of the talented cast. Kubrick, who brought in pulp writer Jim Thompson to create the perfect dialogue, tells the story with a nonlinear, fractured-time narrative, following each of the main characters separately as they prepare for the big day. Featuring Kubrick's flawless direction and wonderfully atmospheric photography, anchored by a jazz-tinged score by Gerald Fried, THE KILLING is one of the most intense noir heist films ever made.
The film features terrific performances from Hayden, Elisha Cook, Marie Windsor, and the rest of the talented cast. Kubrick, who brought in pulp writer Jim Thompson to create the perfect dialogue, tells the story with a nonlinear, fractured-time narrative, following each of the main characters separately as they prepare for the big day. Featuring Kubrick's flawless direction and wonderfully atmospheric photography, anchored by a jazz-tinged score by Gerald Fried, THE KILLING is one of the most intense noir heist films ever made.
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