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The Killing (1956) + Killer's Kiss (1955) (Blu-ray)
Release Date: 09 February 2015
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Product Description
An ex-con, a corrupt cop, a reformed alcoholic, a wrestler, a
sharpshooter and a pair of inside men: these seven men intent on
executing the perfect robbery and taking a racetrack for two million
dollars. But this is the world of film noir, a tough, sour place where
nothing quite goes as planned...
For his third feature Stanley Kubrick adapted Lionel White s Clean
Break with a little help from hard-boiled specialist Jim Thompson (The
Killer Inside Me), and in doing so created a heist movie classic, one
to rank alongside John Huston s The Asphalt Jungle and Quentin
Tarantino s Reservoir Dogs. The robbery itself is one of cinema s great
set-pieces, as taut a piece of filmmaking as you ll ever find, expertly
controlled by Kubrick, who called The Killing his first mature work .
Starring Sterling Hayden (Johnny Guitar, The Godfather), perennial
fall guy Elisha Cook Jr (The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep) and Marie
Windsor (The Narrow Margin) as his duplicitous wife, The Killing is
quintessential film noir, still as brutal, thrilling and audacious as
it was almost six decades ago.
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the feature
- Original uncompressed mono PCM Audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Stanley Kurbrick s second feature, Killer s Kiss (1955),
presented in High Definition (1080p)
- An appreciation by filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Sightseers)
- An extract from the French television series Journal de la cinéma
featuring an interview with Sterling
- Hayden
- Original theatrical trailers for both films
- More to be announced!
- Collector s booklet containing new writing by Peter Kramer
(author of volumes on Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey and A
Clockwork Orange), Barry Forshaw and filmmaker Ron Peck, illustrated
with original archive stills
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