The Killing
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.
Cast
Sterling Hayden
as Johnny Clay
Coleen Gray
as Fay
Vince Edwards
as Val Cannon
Jay C. Flippen
as Marvin Unger
Ted de Corsia
as Randy Kennan
Marie Windsor
as Sherry Peatty
Elisha Cook Jr.
as George Peatty
Joe Sawyer
as Mike O'Reilly
James Edwards
as Track Parking Attendant
Timothy Carey
as Nikki Arcane
Reviews
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 Sterling Hayden, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook Jr, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen and Coleen Gray. Music is by...
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 he works in the cashier's office at the local racetrack where "Mike" (Joe Sawyer) works behind the b...
