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The Killing (1956)
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84 minutes, Criterion edition. A racetrack robbery is reconstructed through the movements of people who understand only parts of the plan. Stanley Kubrick makes the shuffled chronology practical to follow, while private resentments keep threatening the criminal timetable. Its tight duration supplies a particularly clean older thriller, with fatalism growing from the ordinary weaknesses inside the mechanism.
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Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.