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| Title: THE KILLING Year: 1956 Rating: ****1/2 |
Following what's more an art-house crime melodrama in KILLER'S KISS, young photographer turned director Stanley Kubrick created a more polished, genuine film noir that — using a then-rare, non-linear structure — is also far more complicated... so much that the studio forced one of those docudrama-style narrations throughout...
Working best to map-out the ensemble of criminals who are otherwise everyday workers at the targeted racetrack along with a crooked cop, a wrestler and last but not least, a bonafide hoodlum to shoot a running horse...
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| Timothy Carey and Sterling Hayden in THE KILLING |
Where Timothy Carey plays another teeth-gritting, offbeat character, and his expository with master criminal (and this group's leader) Sterling Hayden perfectly suits pulp-novelist Jim Thompson's hardboiled dialogue...
Yet not everyone's aboard this main heist — while Hayden's good girl Coleen Gray's second-billed, it's scene-stealer femme fatale Marie Windsor who's technically the most important...
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| Elisha Cook Jr and Marie Windsor in THE KILLING |
As the wife of wimpy track-teller Elisha Cook Jr., she's part of a double-cross with handsome lover Vince Edwards, who has a slowburn sidekick in Kubrick three-timer Joe Turkel, soon to join Carey as one of three doomed soldiers in the anti-war classic PATHS OF GLORY, which is deeper and more befitting what would become Kubrick's signature style: including long-takes, mesmerizing wide-shots and slow-pan camerawork,...
Yet THE KILLING is where the iconic auteur perfected characterization, herein captured within phantom-walled interiors and genuine location exteriors beneath grim, shadowy darkness to brightly exposed sunlight — visually combining stylish nuance with a severe and gritty, uncompromising edge.
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| Joe Sawyer with Ted de Corcia and Elisha Cook Jr in THE KILLING |
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| Jay C. Flippen in THE KILLING |
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| Vince Edwards and Joe Turkel in THE KILLING |
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| Sterling Hayden in THE KILLING |
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Ted de Corsia in THE KILLING
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| Elisha Cook Jr and Marie Windsor in THE KILLING |
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| Vince Edwards and Marie Windsor in THE KILLING |
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| Sterling Hayden and Elisha Cook Jr. in THE KILLING |
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| Timothy Carey in THE KILLING |
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Joe Sawyer and Dorothy Adams in THE KILLING
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Timothy Carey in THE KILLING with James Edwards
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| Coleen Gray in THE KILLING |
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Joe Turkel and Vince Edwards in THE KILLING
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| Signed DVD by Coleen Gray and Joe Turkel |
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| Sterling Hayden and Coleen Gray in THE KILLING |
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| Sterling Hayden in THE KILLING |
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| Ted de Corsia and Joe Turkel in THE KILLING |
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| Vince Edwards and Marie Windsor in THE KILLING |
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| Vince Edwards and Marie Windsor in THE KILLING |
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| Vince Edwards and Marie Windsor in THE KILLING |
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| Sterling Hayden in THE KILLING |
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Sterling Hayden in THE KILLING with Joe Sawyer and Elisha Cook Jr
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| Sterling Hayden in THE KILLING |
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| Kola Kwariani and Sterling Hayden in THE KILLING |
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| Kola Kwariani and Sterling Hayden in THE KILLING |
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| Timothy Carey and Sterling Hayden in THE KILLING |
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| Tito Vuolo and Sterling Hayden in THE KILLING |
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| Sterling Hayden in THE KILLING |
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Sterling Hayden in THE KILLING with Coleen Gray
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| Stanley Kubrick's THE KILLING |
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| Stanley Kubrick's THE KILLING |
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| Vince Edwards in THE KILLING |
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| Joseph Turkel in THE KILLING |
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| Marie Windsor in THE KILLING |
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| Sterling Hayden in THE KILLING with Coleen Gray |
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| Sterling Hayden in THE KILLING with Coleen Gray |
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| Stanley Kubrick's THE KILLING |
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| Stanley Kubrick's THE KILLING |
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