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The Killing
Year: 1956
Time: 85
Aspect Ratio
1.66:1
Audio
English 2.0 PCM Mono
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Killer's Kiss
Year: 1955
Time: 67
Aspect Ratio
1.37:1
Audio
English 2.0 PCM Mono
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The Killing
| Killer's Kiss
Licensor
MGM Home Entertainment
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Featuring: Frank Silvera, Sterling Hayden, Jamie Smith, Coleen Gray, Irene Kane, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Ted DeCorsia, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook, Jr., Joseph Turkel, Timothy Agoglia Carey
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 (Johnny Guitar, The Godfather), perennial fall guy Elisha Cook Jr (The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep) and Marie Windsor (The Narrow Margin) as his duplicitous wife, The Killing is quintessential film noir, still as brutal, thrilling and audacious as it was almost six decades ago.
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 (Johnny Guitar, The Godfather), perennial fall guy Elisha Cook Jr (The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep) and Marie Windsor (The Narrow Margin) as his duplicitous wife, The Killing is quintessential film noir, still as brutal, thrilling and audacious as it was almost six decades ago.
Technical Specifications
Format: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1 , 1.66:1
Audio:
English 2.0 PCM Mono
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Subtitles:
English
Region:
B
Discs:
1 Disc |
BD-50
Supplements
- The Evolution of a Master – critic Michel Ciment discusses Kubrick’s 1950s output
- An extract from the French television series Journal de la cinéma featuring an interview with Sterling Hayden
- An appreciation by filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Sightseers)
- Trailer for The Killing
- Trailer for Killer's Kiss
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Reinhard Kleist
- Collector's booklet containing new writing by Peter Krämer (author of volumes on Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange), Barry Forshaw and filmmaker Ron Peck, illustrated with original archive stills
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