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The Killing

In all its fury and violence...

7.6(1,781)19561h 25m6

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
$320K
Box office
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Language
English
  • sniper
  • adultery
  • robbery
  • husband wife relationship
  • corruption
  • marriage crisis
  • gangster
  • ex-detainee
  • horse race
  • way of life
  • heist
  • femme fatale

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNRNew York City, New York19 May 1956
    • TheatricalNR6 Jun 1956
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalPG21 Jul 1956
  • AustraliaAU

    • PhysicalPGVideo Tape - https://www.classification.gov.au/titles/killing-123 Oct 1989
    • PhysicalPGDVD - https://www.classification.gov.au/titles/killing-030 Apr 2013
  • AustriaAT

    • Theatrical1215 Feb 1957
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalK-1627 Jan 1961
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalU11 Sept 1957
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1827 Nov 1956
    • Theatrical18Re-Release6 Dec 2001
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical21 Mar 1957
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Theatrical1222 Feb 1957
    • Physical12DVD10 Oct 2007
    • TV12Nederland 27 Jul 2012
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical1514 Jan 1957

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The Killing was released on 6 June 1956.

Audience reviews

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  • J

    John Chard

    3/14/2019

    8/10

    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 make a killing at the …

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    6/20/2023

    7/10

    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 feature race brings …

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