The Killing & Killer's Kiss Blu-Ray
The Killing & Killer's Kiss Blu-Ray
For his third feature Stanley Kubrick adapted Lionel White's Clean Break with a little help from hard-boiled specialist Jim Thompson (The Killer Inside Me), and in doing so created a heist movie classic, one to rank alongside John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle and Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. The robbery itself is one of cinema's great set-pieces, as taut a piece of filmmaking as you'll ever find, expertly controlled by Kubrick, who called The Killing his "first mature work".
Starring Sterling Hayden (Johnny Guitar, The Godfather), perennial fall guy Elisha Cook Jr (The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep) and Marie Windsor (The Narrow Margin) as his duplicitous wife, The Killing is quintessential film noir, still as brutal, thrilling and audacious as it was almost six decades ago.
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Actors: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Frank Silvera, Irene Kane, Jamie Smith
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Special Features: Optional isolated music and effects tracks on both films, The Evolution of a Master - critic Michel Ciment discusses Kubrick's 1950s output, An extract from the French television series Journal de la cinema featuring an interview with Sterling Hayden, An appreciation by Ben Wheatley (Kill List/A Field in England), Theatrical trailers for both films
Release Year: 1956
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Format: Blu-Ray
Label: Arrow Video
Region Coding: Region B
Language: English
Subtitles: English SDH
Case Type: Blu-Ray Case
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Run Time: 85 / 68 mins
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1, 1.37:1
Video Format: PAL