{"id":8070,"date":"2012-10-15T19:10:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T23:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8070"},"modified":"2012-10-14T18:15:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T22:15:13","slug":"the-killing-1956-stanley-kubrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8070","title":{"rendered":"The Killing (1956, Stanley Kubrick)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perfect movie about the perfect crime.<\/p>\n

Johnny is Sterling Hayden (not a very “Johnny”-looking actor, but this was his second Johnny after Johnny Guitar<\/a><\/em>), perfect-crime-planner, with a demeanor nearly as serious as the Dragnet<\/em>-style voiceover guy who keeps telling us the time. He tells his girl to meet him at the airport, then proceeds to pull off a racetrack robbery with a bunch of inside men and a professional horse-sniper (Timothy Carey, a few years before his opus World’s Greatest Sinner<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n

Barman Joe Sawyer (in movies since 1930) and cop Ted de Corsia (private eye in Lady From Shanghai<\/a><\/em>) and money man Jay Filppen (of Run of the Arrow<\/em>) are on board, but sweaty, nervous cashier Elisha Cook Jr (12 years after playing the sex-crazed drummer in Phantom Lady<\/a><\/em>) gives up too many details to his bitch of a wife (Marie Windsor, whose follow-up was Roger Corman’s Swamp Diamonds<\/em>), which she relays to her boyfriend – who beats Hayden (and the money) to the post-heist meeting place. Everyone gets shot – everyone, even Elisha’s wife who wasn’t even there, and Timothy Carey after insulting parking lot guy James Edwards (of The Steel Helmet<\/em>). So now it’s just Hayden, who rushes to the airport among heavy police presence, with all his cash in a just-purchased flea-market suitcase with broken locks. After pulling off the perfect crime, Hayden forgot to plan a perfect getaway.<\/p>\n

Watched on the Plaza’s big screen in HD. No screengrabs, but here’s a wonderful photo of the male supporting cast from Criterion’s site:
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Amazing looking movie, shot by Lucien Ballard (who started with Josef von Sternberg) and produced by James Harris (who’d later make the bizarre Some Call It Loving<\/a><\/em>). Writer Jim Thompson also did Paths of Glory<\/em>, and his novels would be adapted for Coup de torchon<\/em>, The Grifters<\/em> and The Killer Inside Me<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perfect movie about the perfect crime. Johnny is Sterling Hayden (not a very “Johnny”-looking actor, but this was his second Johnny after Johnny Guitar), perfect-crime-planner, with a demeanor nearly as serious as the Dragnet-style voiceover guy who keeps telling us the time. He tells his girl to meet him at the airport, then proceeds to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,631,645,1624,674],"class_list":["post-8070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-perfect-crime","tag-stanley-kubrick","tag-sterling-hayden","tag-timothy-carey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8132,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8070\/revisions\/8132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}