Invited to pick a film, Jill Sprecher chose to screen Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing. Sterling Hayden leads a large cast of exceptional character actors that includes Timothy Carey, Ted de Corsia, Elisha Cook Jr., Coleen Gray, and Marie Windsor. This classic follows a group of crooks who plan a daring and never-before-executed heist of a race track—and, just as dramatically, what happens after the crime is committed. Though it didn’t fare well at the box office, the film was critically acclaimed upon its release and cemented Kubrick’s reputation as a director to watch. 

Director: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen. 1956. 84 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.  

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Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.