The Killing (1956)

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"FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★½ NOTES: Perfectly grayscale print. The two shots in which Johnny forces the four clerks out of the office appear to have been sourced from an alternate print. DATE: January 13th 2025 CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema LOCATION: West End"

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"18.11. 2024 An experienced crook has organized a complicated and daring racetrack robbery plan that starts to slowly fall apart after one of the criminals carelessly talks about it to his unfaithful wife. "The Killing" - Kubrick's first masterpiece - is admirable work because it is purely a depiction of a crime and nothing else. Kubrick knew that he has to avoid typical melodramatic elements in order to make his film truly powerful and unique. Time is especially important thing for Kubrick and "

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" "It isn't fair. I never had anybody but you. Not a real husband. Not even a man. Just a bad joke without a punch line." Written by Stanley Kubrick and Jim Thompson Music by Gerald Fried Cinematography by Lucien Ballard Editing by Betty Steinberg"

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Stanley Kubrick's first "very good" film

“As someone who considers Stanley Kubrick one of the greatest directors who ever lived, 'The Killing' is not one of his very best (his masterpiece being '2001').

This said, 'The Killing' is a big step up from the still solid if flawed 'Killer's Kiss' and especially the very poor (for me his only misfire) 'Fear and Desire', which only had the camera work and use of light and shadow going for it.

My only two complaints with 'The Killing' are with the ending and the narration. The ending was rather rushed and anti-climactic, ending on too much of an abrupt note. The narration poses more of a problem, apparently it was forced into the film and the tacky execution really shows, it is annoyingly cheesy, over-explanatory and overused and the film would have fared much better wi” read more

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