Killing, The

Bodies eventually pile up and money goes flying in Stanley Kubrick's smartly written, tension-filled, black-and-white, 85-minute, 1956 noir classic film when an ex-convict (Sterling Hayden) with a needy girlfriend (Colleen Gray), a henpecked cashier (Elisha Cook Jr.) married to a shrill wife (Marie Windsor) who is cheating on him with a younger lover (Vince Edwards), a gambling-addicted patrolman (Ted de Corsia), a horse track bartender (Joe Sawyer), an elderly husband (Jay C. Flippen) with a sickly wife (Dorothy Adams), and a meticulous gunman (Timothy Carey) plan to rob the Mafia of $2 million at the racetrack.
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