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Directed by
Stanley Kubrick Written by
Stanley Kubrick, Jim Thompson Cast
Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Marie Windsor [more]
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 29, 1999
Budget $320,000
Running Time
1 hour, 25 minutes
Country USA
Studio United Artists
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• The Killing
• Bed of Fear (1955)
• Clean Break (1956)
• Day of Violence (1955)
• Die Rechnung ging nicht auf (1956)
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| Trivia from The Killing (1956) | 1 Filmed in on location at the Golden Gate Racetrack in San Francisco and at Chaplin Studios in California.
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| 2 Estimated budget: $330,000. The film was shot in 24 days.
(20 votes) | 3 THE KILLING premiered as the second half of a double feature; Richard Fleischer's BANDIDO! was the main film.
(20 votes) | 4 Director Stanley Kubrick formed a production company with James B. Harris, Harris-Kubrick Pictures, before making this film.
(20 votes) | 5 Kubrick and Harris bought the rights to the Lionel White novel for $10,000.
(20 votes) | 6 The union would not allow Kubrick to serve as the cameraman, so he oversaw Lucien Ballard's work very closely.
| 7 DAY OF VIOLENCE and BED OF FEAR were both working titles for the film.
| 8 Jack Palance and Victor Mature were both considered for the part that went to Sterling Hayden.
| 9 Kubrick took no fee as director of the film.
| 10 The target horse was named Red Lightning, running in the seventh race, the $100,000 Added Landsdowne Stakes.
| 11 Rodney Dangerfield appears as an extra in the racetrack fight scene.
| 12 One of the horses in the race in which all of the characters are called to a meeting is Stanley K, named for the director.
| 13 Joe Turkel, here playing a hood, played eerie Lloyd the bartender in Kubrick's THE SHINING.
| 14 United Artists originally wanted CLEAN BREAK as a vehicle for Frank Sinatra.
| 15 Sterling Hayden was paid $40,000 for his lead role.
| 16 Art director Ruth Sobotka was Kubrick's wife at the time.
| 17 Kubrick delayed filming in order to to wait until actress Marie Windsor was finished with another film, Roger Corman's SWAMP DIAMONDS.
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