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Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

The Killing
1956
****½
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Elisha Cook Jr, Marie Windsor

Stanley Kubrick's first serious directorial effort is a highly influential film noir. As in href=/search2.php?query=2693>The Asphalt Jungle, Sterling Hayden plays a career criminal who's involved in a plan to rob the money counting room at a racetrack. Kubrick and Jim Thompson's tight script is based on Lionel White's novel Clean Break. The gripping story of the heist is told from different perspectives, and the dialogue sizzles all the way through.