The Killing
Stanley Kubrick’s account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood’s tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson, and a phenomenal cast of character actors, including Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Timothy Carey, Elisha Cook Jr., and Marie Windsor, The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. And with its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense of irony, it’s Kubrick to the core.
Special Features
- New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New video interview with producer James B. Harris
- Excerpted interviews with actor Sterling Hayden from the French television series Cinéma cinémas
- New 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
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A new essay by film historian Haden Guest and a reprinted interview with actress Marie Windsor
New cover by Connor Willumsen
Special Features
- New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- New video interview with producer James B. Harris
- Excerpted interviews with actor Sterling Hayden from the French television series Cinéma cinémas
- New 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
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: A new essay by film historian Haden Guest and a reprinted interview with actress Marie Windsor
New cover by Connor Willumsen
Cast
- Sterling Hayden
- Johnny Clay
- Coleen Gray
- Fay
- Vince Edwards
- Val Cannon
- Jay C. Flippen
- Marvin Unger
- Ted DeCorsia
- Policeman Randy Kennan
- Marie Windsor
- Sherry Peatty
- Elisha Cook
- George Peatty
- Joe Sawyer
- Mike O'Reilly
- James Edwards
- Track parking attendant
- Timothy Carey
- Nikki Arcane
- Kola Kwariani
- Maurice Oboukhoff
- Jay Adler
- Leo, the loan shark
- Tito Vuolo
- Joe Piano
- Dorothy Adams
- Mrs. Ruthie O'Reilly
- Herbert Ellis
- Second American Airlines clerk
- James Griffith
- Mr. Grimes, airline supervisor
- Cecil Elliott
- Lady with small dog
- Joseph Turkel
- Tiny
- Steve Mitchell
- Brown
- William Benedict
- American Airlines clerk
Credits
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Producer
- James B. Harris
- Screenplay
- Stanley Kubrick
- Dialogue
- Jim Thompson
- Based on the novel Clean Break by
- Lionel White
- Director of photography
- Lucien Ballard
- Art director
- Roth Sobotka
- Editing
- Betty Steinberg
- Music composed and conducted by
- Gerald Fried
- Assistant director
- Milton Carter
- Associate producer
- Alexander Singer
- Camera operator
- Dick Tower
- Gaffer
- Bobby Jones
- Head grip
- Carl Gibson
- Script supervisor
- Mary Gibsone
- Sound
- Earl Snyder
- Makeup
- Robert Littlefield
- Wardrobe
- Jack Masters
- Special effects
- Dave Koehler
- Set decorator
- Harry Reif
- Photographic effects
- Jack Rabin
- Photographic effects
- Louis DeWitt
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