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The Killing

1956 Film Synopsis & Plot Summary

7.6/10

Rating

85 min

Runtime

1956

Release Year

Stanley Kubrick

Director

Cast

Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Ted de Corsia

Quick Synopsis

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.

Full Plot Summary of 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.

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