# The Killing (1956)

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**Runtime**: 85 min
**Genres**: Crime, Thriller, Drama
**Directed by**: Stanley Kubrick
**Written by**: Stanley Kubrick, Jim Thompson
**Starring**: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Ted de Corsia, Marie Windsor

> *In all its fury and violence...*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Rain-slicked parking lot outside a greyhound track. Johnny Clay slides a wad of bills across the hood of a stolen Ford, counts five nervous faces. One of them won’t make the getaway.

**Mood tags**: paranoid, raw, slow-burn

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