Film Noir Classics
Stanley Kubrick’s
THE KILLING
Wednesday, May 24th at 7:30 PM
Members $12 | Public $17
You’ll think you’ve died and gone to hardboiled heaven. Or
is it hell? Stanley Kubrick was only 28 when he unleashed this
twisty and twisted masterpiece, studded with diamond-hard dialogue courtesy of
pulp master Jim Thompson. Sterling Hayden arranges
a clockwork racetrack robbery only to learn the hard way what happens to best-laid
plans. Kubrick proved his noir bona fides by casting genre stalwarts Elisha
Cook Jr., Marie Windsor, Coleen Gray, Ted
de Corsia, Jay C. Flippen—and unforgettable wild man Timothy
Carey. The film’s backtracking narrative so befuddled United Artists that
the studio dumped The Killing on the bottom half of a
double bill, oblivious to the talent that would make Kubrick the most visionary
director of his era. (US, 1956, 85min., b/w, DCP | Dir. Stanley Kubrick)
