Jun 06, 1956
85 min
Full-HD

The Killing (1956)

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.

Category

Crime Thriller

Country

United States of America

Companies

United Artists Harris-Kubrick Productions

Sterling Hayden

Johnny Clay

Coleen Gray

Fay

Vince Edwards

Val Cannon

Jay C. Flippen

Marvin Unger

Ted de Corsia

Randy Kennan

Marie Windsor

Sherry Peatty

Elisha Cook Jr.

George Peatty

Joe Sawyer

Mike O'Reilly

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