(Kubrick 1958) The Killing

This was Stan­ley Kubrick­’s first fea­ture film, a low bud­get crime thriller. Appar­ent­ly the pro­duc­ers thought that its non-lin­ear sto­ry sequence would be incom­pre­hen­si­ble to an audi­ence, and did not pro­mote it. But there are some very good sequences in this, and the act­ing, by unknowns and “B” stars (Stir­ling Hay­den, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Elisha Cook), is quite good. Elisha Cook’s per­for­mance is par­tic­u­lar­ly impressive.

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