The killing
(Blu-ray)

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Based on the novel "Clean Break" by Lionel White.

Blu-ray release of the 1956 motion picture.

Includes booklet featuring an essay by film historian Haden Guest and a reprinted interview with actress Marie Winsor.

Special features: new digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; new video interview with producer James B. Harris; excerpted interviews with actor Sterling Hayden from the French television series Cinéma cinémas; new video interview with poet and author Robert Polito about writer Jim Thompson; restored high-definition digital transfer of Stanley Kubrick's 1955 noir feature Killer's Kiss; new video appreciation of Killer's Kiss featuring film critic Geoffrey O'Brien; trailers.

Director of photography, Lucien Ballard; editor, Betty Steinberg; music, Gerald Fried.

Coleen Gray, Sterling Hayden, Timothy Carey, Vince Edwards, Elisha Cook Jr., Marie Windsor.

"Stanley Kubrick's account of an ambitious racetrack robbery is one of Hollywood's tautest, twistiest noirs. Aided by a radically time-shuffling narrative, razor-sharp dialogue from pulp novelist Jim Thompson, and a phenomenal cast of character actors, including Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Timothy Carey, Elisha Cook Jr., and Marie Windsor, The Killing is both a jaunty thriller and a cold-blooded punch to the gut. And with its precise tracking shots and gratifying sense of irony, it's Kubrick to the core." -From back of container.

Not rated.

Blu-ray; monaural; aspect ratio 1.66:1.

English dialogue; English subtitles.