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THE KILLING
May 6, 2015  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

Here’s an early rarity from an extraordinary film career: A film noir heist movie, made in 1956, featuring all the taut writing, bitter betrayals and memorably shadowy characters you expect from this genre. But co-written and directed, in this case, by a young moviemaker named Stanley Kubrick – who, even this early, put his stamp on the visuals, the pacing, the performances, and the overall impact. Sterling Hayden, later to co-star in Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, stars as the man who plans a robbery at a race track.

 
 
 
 
 
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