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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.
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CinemaSerf
Though it's Sterling Hayden who takes top billing here, it's actually Marie Windsor who steals the show as "Sherry". She is the rather money-grabbing, bullying, wife of "George" (Elisha Cook Jr). Now ... read more
about 2 years ago

John Chard
This is a bad joke without a punch line. The Killing is directed by Stanley Kubrick who co-adapts to screenplay with Jim Thompson from the novel Clean Break written by Lionel White. It stars Sterli... read more
over 6 years ago
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Cast

Sterling Hayden
Johnny Clay

Coleen Gray
Fay

Vince Edwards
Val Cannon

Jay C. Flippen
Marvin Unger

Ted de Corsia
Randy Kennan

Marie Windsor
Sherry Peatty

Elisha Cook Jr.
George Peatty

Joe Sawyer
Mike O'Reilly

James Edwards
Track Parking Attendant

Timothy Carey
Nikki Arcane
Kola Kwariani
Maurice Oboukhoff

Jay Adler
Leo the Loanshark

Tito Vuolo
Joe Piano - motel manager

Dorothy Adams
Mrs. Ruthie O'Reilly

Herbert Ellis
2nd American Airlines Clerk

James Griffith
Mr. Grimes
Cecil Elliott
Lady with Small Dog

Joe Turkel
Tiny

Steve Mitchell
Brown - American Airlines Clerk
Mary Carroll
Woman Asking Kennan for Help

William Benedict
American Airlines Clerk

Charles Cane
Plainclothesman at Airport

Robert B. Williams
Plainclothesman at Airport
Tom Coleman
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)

Franklyn Farnum
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)

John George
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)

Art Gilmore
Narrator (uncredited)

Kenner G. Kemp
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)

Carl M. Leviness
Racetrack Spectator (uncredited)
Sol Gorss
Track Guard Slugged by Johnny (uncredited)

Harry Hines
Chess Player (uncredited)
Hal J. Moore
Race Track P.A. Announcer (uncredited)

Harvey Parry
Bartender (uncredited)

Richard Reeves
Bill - Track Employee in Locker Room (uncredited)

Frank Richards
Track Employee in Locker Room (uncredited)

Arthur Tovey
Racetrack Cashier (uncredited)
Finn Zirzow
Man at Airport (uncredited)
Oliver Cross
Racetrack Cashier (uncredited)
Charles Fogel
Race Track Worker (uncredited)
Rudy Germane
Track Officer (uncredited)
Director

Stanley Kubrick
Director
Milton Carter
Assistant Director
Howard Joslin
Second Assistant Director
Paul Feiner
Second Assistant Director
Mary Gibsone
Script Supervisor
Creator

Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay
Lionel White
Novel

Jim Thompson
Writer