The Killing (1956 film)
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The Killing (1956 film) is a 1956 American film noir crime thriller directed by Stanley Kubrick that follows a meticulously planned racetrack heist and its unraveling.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Killing (1956 film) canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
American film
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crime thriller film ⓘ film ⓘ film noir ⓘ heist film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Clean Break
NERFINISHED
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novel by Lionel White ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| castMember |
Coleen Gray
NERFINISHED
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Elisha Cook Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Jay C. Flippen NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Sawyer NERFINISHED ⓘ Kola Kwariani NERFINISHED ⓘ Marie Windsor NERFINISHED ⓘ Sterling Hayden NERFINISHED ⓘ Ted de Corsia NERFINISHED ⓘ Timothy Carey NERFINISHED ⓘ Vince Edwards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Lucien Ballard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Stanley Kubrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Betty Steinberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | meticulously planned racetrack robbery ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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film noir ⓘ heist film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | later heist films ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Johnny Clay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motionPictureRatingSystem | unrated at original release ⓘ |
| musicBy | Gerald Fried NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrationBy | Art Gilmore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | nonlinear timeline ⓘ |
| notableFor | early major directorial work of Stanley Kubrick ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Stanley Kubrick filmography ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A group of criminals plan and execute a racetrack heist that ultimately unravels. ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Sterling Hayden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | James B. Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1956 ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | theatrical film ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 85 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Jim Thompson
NERFINISHED
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Stanley Kubrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | horse racetrack ⓘ |
| studio | Harris-Kubrick Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
betrayal
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fate and inevitability ⓘ greed ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Johnny Clay