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                            The Killing (1956)
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STARS...........: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
DIRECTOR........: Stanley Kubrick
WRITERS.........: Stanley Kubrick, Jim Thompson
GENRE...........: Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller 
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049406
RUNTIME.........: 1h 23mn
SIZE............: 17.8 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L5) HDR10, Dolby Vision P8
BITRATE.........: 30000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 3840x2160
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.66:1 (Uncropped)
FRAMERATE.......: 24 fps
AUDIO1..........: English FLAC 1.0
AUDIO2..........: Commentary by author and film historian Alan K. Rode
SUBTITLES.......: BRA-POR, DAN, ENG, FRE, ITA, RUS, SPA
SOURCE..........: Kino Lorber UHD Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2022-09-21
NOTE............: Dolby Vision may require remuxing to MP4 for your device.


Stanley Kubrick's third feature showed that he was no ordinary director, as he dispensed with traditional time structure to detail the planning and execution of a racetrack heist gone wrong. Combining a non-linear story with a unifying, matter-of-fact voice-over narration, Kubrick constructed an intricate yet lucid cinematic puzzle that shifted back and forth both in time and among the central characters, revealing the personal stakes for each participant by following their individual actions leading up to the fateful seventh race. Johnny the leader thinks he has it all under control, but, in true Kubrick fashion, his plan is not immune to human failure. While the fractured time frame and use of long takes and tracking shots signaled Kubrick's stylistic break from classical form, the sharp black-and-white photography, Marie Windsor's insidious femme fatale, and Sterling Hayden's doomed Johnny place The Killing in the mode of 1940s/1950s film noir. His first film made on a reasonable budget and with an established cast of pros, The Killing caught critics' attention and established Kubrick as a director to watch, especially for such future cinematic time-tricksters as Quentin Tarantino