The Killing
In all its fury and violence...
Overview
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.
- Budget
- $320,000
- Production
- United Artists, Harris-Kubrick Productions
Tags & Hashtags
Watch The Killing Online
Video player provided by a third-party service. CineFlix does not host any content.
Official Trailer & More
Videos auto-play in sequence. If a video isn't available in your country, it's automatically skipped.
Cast
Sterling Hayden
Johnny Clay
Coleen Gray
Fay
Vince Edwards
Val Cannon
Jay C. Flippen
Marvin Unger
Ted de Corsia
Randy Kennan
Marie Windsor
Sherry Peatty
Elisha Cook Jr.
George Peatty
Joe Sawyer
Mike O'Reilly
James Edwards
Track Parking Attendant
Timothy Carey
Nikki Arcane
Jay Adler
Leo the Loanshark
Tito Vuolo
Joe Piano - motel manager
Dorothy Adams
Mrs. Ruthie O'Reilly
Herbert Ellis
2nd American Airlines Clerk
James Griffith
Mr. Grimes
Joe Turkel
Tiny
Steve Mitchell
Brown - American Airlines Clerk
William Benedict
American Airlines Clerk
Charles Cane
Plainclothesman at Airport
Robert B. Williams
Plainclothesman at Airport
Crew
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Writers
- Stanley Kubrick,Jim Thompson
- Producers
- James B. Harris
- Cinematography
- Lucien Ballard
- Composer
- Gerald Fried
Where to Watch
Streaming availability data provided by JustWatch via TMDB. Click a logo to visit the provider's official website.
Similar Movies
The Mugger
2017
Goodbye, Francesca!
1957
To Take A Wife
2004
The Bad Guys 2
2025
The Village
2004
Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire
2005
Perfect Stranger
2007
Vendetta II: The New Mafia
1993
Trio
1997
Give Us Wings
1940
Military Wives
2020
Scarlet
2023
Fracture
2007
Crime Spree
2003
The Happy Couple
1975
The Father
1969
Runaway Horse
2007
The Shipping News
2001
Cherry Blossoms
2008
The Marksman
2005
Recommendations
The Air I Breathe
2007
Collision
2022
Miller's Crossing
1990
Bound
1996
Crime of Passion
1956
The Place Beyond the Pines
2013
White Heat
1949
Lucky Number Slevin
2006
Casino
1995
Sleuth
1972
Dragged Across Concrete
2019
The Getaway
1972
Too Late for Tears
1949
Face
1997
A Perfect Murder
1998
Dark City
1950
Blood Simple
1985
Heat
1995
Empire
2002
The Enforcer
2022
User Reviews (0)
Sign in with Google to post a rating and review.
- No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts.
User Reviews from TMDB
John Chard
March 14, 2019
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 racetrack, with some special inside help he plots to nab $2 million in an intric…
CinemaSerf
June 20, 2023
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 in the punters. Ex-con "Johnny" (Hayden) is the brains behind the scheme that al…