Rent The Killing / Killer's Kiss (1956)
3.7 of 5 from 31 ratings
2h 33min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
An ex-con, a corrupt cop, a reformed alcoholic, a wrestler, a sharpshooter and a pair of inside men: these seven men intent on executing the perfect robbery and taking a racetrack for two million dollars. But this is the world of film noir, a tough, sour place where nothing quite goes as planned... For his third feature Stanley Kubrick adapted Lionel White's 'Clean Break' with a little help from hard-boiled specialist Jim Thompson (The Killer Inside Me), and in doing so created a heist movie classic, one to rank alongside John Huston's 'The Asphalt Jungle' and Quentin Tarantino's 'Reservoir Dogs'. The robbery itself is one of cinema's great set-pieces, as taut a piece of filmmaking as you'll ever find, expertly controlled by Kubrick, who called 'The Killing' his first mature work . Starring Sterling Hayden, perennial fall guy Elisha Cook Jr. and Marie Windsor as his duplicitous wife, 'The Killing' is quintessential film noir, still as brutal, thrilling and audacious as it was almost six decades ago. - Actors:
- Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Ted de Corsia, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook Jr., Timothy Carey, Dorothy Adams, James Griffith, Joe Turkel, William 'Billy' Benedict, James Edwards, Kola Kwariani, Herbert Ellis, Robert Williams, Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane, Jerry Jarrett
- Directors:
- Stanley Kubrick
- Producers:
- James B. Harris, Morris Bousel, Stanley Kubrick
- Writers:
- Stanley Kubrick, Jim Thompson, Lionel White, Howard Sackler
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 09/02/2015
- Run Time:
- 153 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 1.0, English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Stanley Kubrick's second feature, Killer's Kiss (1955), presented in High Definition (1080p) Original uncompressed mono PCM audio on both films
- Optional isolated music and effect tracks on both films
- The Evolution of a Master - critic Michel Ciment discusses Kubrick's 1950s output
- An extract from the French television series Journal de la cinema featuring an interview with Sterling Hayden
- An appreciation by Ben Wheatley (Kill List, A Field in England)
- Theatrical trailers for both films
