Genre: Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller Director(s): Stanley Kubrick Release Date: 19 May 1956 Movie rating: 8.0

The third feature film directed by one Stanley Kubrick, ‘The Killing” is a picture perfect film noir crime drama. It tells the tale of Johnny clay, an aging criminal deciding to pull off one last heist before riding off into the sunset. Clay plans on stealing two million dollars from a money counting room at the horse race track, and he assembles a team featuring a sniper, a betting window teller, a racetrack barman, a crooked cop, and even a wrestler. They all have specific tasks that they must perform in order for the heist to succeed. The heist is an absolute success, aside from the sniper being gunned down by the police, but the window teller’s wife convinces her lover to steal the money from his husband’s crew. A deadly shootout ensues, living the badly wounded window teller the only survivor. With the last ounces of his strength he drags himself to his apartment where he kills his traitorous wife. Clay sees him stumbling in the streets and realizes something is wrong. He packs the heist money into the suitcase and brings his wife with him to the airport. The airport official won’t let him board the plane with such a huge suitcase for hand luggage, and he reluctantly agrees to check it into the cargo area. As he watches his suitcase fall off of a cart with money spilling out, he gives up all hope of escape and waits for the cops to come and pick him up.

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