The killing

The Resource The killing
Label
The killing
Statement of responsibility
Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Harris-Kubrick Pictures Corporation ; screenplay by Stanley Kubrick ; dialogue by Jim Thompson ; produced by James B. Harris ; directed by Stanley Kubrick
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Language
eng
Summary
  • Johnny Clay has a plan. After spending 5 years in Alcatraz, he decides that if he's going to commit crimes, the risk had better be worth the punishment. He then proceeds to mastermind a brilliant criminal scheme to steal $2,000,000 from a local racetrack in which "no one will get hurt."
  • Killer's kiss: Prize-fighter Davy Gordon intervenes when private dancer Gloria Price is being attacked by her employer and lover Vincent Raphello. This brings the two together and they get involved with each other, which displeases Raphello
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TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, Lucien Ballard ; film editor, Betty Steinberg ; music composed and conducted by Gerald Fried ; art director, Ruth Sobotka. Killer's kiss: Music composed and conducted by Gerald Fried ; song by Norman Gimbel, Arden Clar ; choreography by David Vaughan
Dewey number
791.43/72
Intended audience
Not rated
Language note
In English with optional English (SDH) subtitles
LC call number
PN1997
LC item number
.K5555 2011
PerformerNote
Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Ted DeCorsia, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook, Joe Sawyer, James Edwards, Timothy Carey, Kola Kwariani, Jay Adler, Tito Vuolo, Dorothy Adams, Herbert Ellis, James Griffith, Cecil Elliott, Joseph Turkel, Steve Mitchell, Mary Carroll, William Benedict, Charles R. Cane, Robert B. Williams, (Killer's kiss) Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane, Jerry Jarrett, Mike Dana, Felice Orlandi, Shaun O'Brien, Barbara Brand, David Vaughan, Alec Rubin, Ralph Roberts, Phil Stevenson, Arthur Feldman, Bill Funaro, Skippy Aldeman ; ballet danced by Ruth Sobotka
Runtime
151
Series statement
Criterion Collection
Series volume
575
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
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