Monumental improvement in acting, use of locations and sets.
The acting is really good but kubrick still needs to learn how to write interesting characters or at least for me I found it very hard to connect with any of these people.It lacks focus on what it wants to say imo. Its a heist film but not really, it feels like a bit of a character study but I can't decide who's the main character because at least 4 or 5 characters are integral to the plot and its getting hard to invest when it jumps between characters pretty frequently.
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The Killing
In all its fury and violence...
Rating
3.0 (1)
Release Date
6/6/1956Runtime
85 minsOverview
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.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$320,000Revenue
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A tightly wound heist that collapses under the weight of human weakness and mistrust. Kubrick's debut captures the paranoid precision of a perfect plan undone by greed and pillow talk.
Mood
TenseParanoidBleakDread-soaked
Themes
BetrayalCrimeObsessionCorruption
Tone
Bleak
Pacing
Propulsive
Look
Black and whiteFormalistHigh-contrast
Structure
Nonlinear
Heads up
Graphic violence
Sterling Hayden
Johnny Clay
Coleen Gray
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Val Cannon
Jay C. Flippen
Marvin Unger
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Randy Kennan
Marie Windsor
Sherry Peatty
Elisha Cook Jr.
George Peatty
Joe Sawyer
Mike O'Reilly
James Edwards
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Timothy Carey
Nikki Arcane
Kola Kwariani
Maurice Oboukhoff
Jay Adler
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