film and architecture section: The Killing by Stanley Kubrick, architecture and film appreciation

category: Architecture and Film

film index: 76

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film: The Killing (L'Ultime Razzia)

director: Stanley Kubrick
writers: Novel: Lionel White, Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick, Jim Thompson
production: USA
release: May 20, 1956
playtime: 83 mins
visual: BnW
Language: English
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Genre: Film Noir, Thriller
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Elisha Cook Jr., Marie Windsor
size: 700 mb

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Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) is a veteran criminal planning one last heist before settling down and marrying Fay (Coleen Gray). His plan is to rob the money-counting room of a racetrack of two million dollars during a featured race, and to do this he assembles a team consisting of a corrupt cop (Ted de Corsia); George Peatty (Elisha Cook Jr.), a betting window teller at the track to give access to the backroom; a sharpshooter (Timothy Carey) to shoot the favorite horse during the race, distracting the crowd; a wrestler (Kola Kwariani, born 1903, Republic of Georgia) to provide another distraction by provoking a fight at the track bar, and the bartender (Joe Sawyer).

After a successful heist, the robbers return to the apartment where they were to meet and wait for Johnny to show up with the money so they can divide it. Unfortunately, George's wife Sherry (Marie Windsor) has learned about the heist from her weak-willed husband, and she has told her boyfriend Val (Vince Edwards), who shows up at the apartment to rip them off. In the ensuing shootout, a badly wounded George is the sole survivor. He goes home and shoots Sherry before dying himself.

On his way to the apartment, Johnny sees George staggering on the street, and knows that something is wrong. He puts the cash in an old used suitcase, and he and Fay go to the airport to get on a plane to leave town & dash; but when the bag falls off a cart on its way to be loaded on the plane, it opens up, and the money is blown all over the tarmac by the wind. Fay urges Johnny to make a run for it, but he refuses, stating that there is no use in trying to escape. The film ends with two officers coming to arrest him.

IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049406/
Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing

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