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The Killing: The Criterion Collection DVD

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  • Additional Details
  • Format: DVD
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Run Time: 84 Minutes
  • Region: 1 Region?
  • Aspect Ratio: Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Studio: Criterion Collection
  • DVD Release Date: August 16, 2011
  • Packaging: Keep Case
  • Subtitles: English
  • Audio: ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono
  • Director: Stanley Kubrick
  • Cast: Sterling Hayden , Coleen Gray , Vince Edwards , Jay Flippen , Marie Windsor , Joe Sawyer , Ted Corsia , Elisha Jr. , Timothy Carey
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Color: Black & White
  • Includes:
    Disc 1:
    Video Interview With Producer James B. Harris
    Excerpted Interviews with Actor Sterling Hayden From the French Television Series Cinema Cinemas
    Video Interview with Poet and Author Robert Polito About Writer Jim Thompson
    Trailer

    Disc 2:
    Restored High-Definition Digital Transfer of Stanley Kubrick's 1955 Noir Feature Killer's Kiss
    New Video Appreciation of Killer's Kiss Featuring Film Critic Geoffrey O'Brien
    Trailer
    Booklet Featuring an Essay by Film Historian Haden Guest and a Reprinted Interview With Actress Marie Windsor
  • Release Date: 1956
Stanley Kubrick's account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood's tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson, and a phenomenal cast of character actors, including Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Timothy Carey, Elisha Cook Jr., and Marie Windsor, The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. And with its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense of irony, it's Kubrick to the core.

Expert Review:
A complicated robbery of a racetrack calls for a team of consummate crooks. Sterling Hayden leads the pack; Marie Windsor is unforgettable as the femme fatale, endlessly needling her wimpy husband, Elisha Cook Jr. Equally complicated is the way Stanley Kubrick’s narrative zig-zags back and forth through time. The original score, by Gerald Fried, lingers long after you hear it. By Jacqueline Fitzgerald of Film Noir Blonde

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