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Title:
The killing [DVD video]
Edition:
Two-DVD special ed.
Publication Date:
2011
Publication Information:
[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (19 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
ISBN:
9781604654660
Abstract:
Johnny Clay has a plan. After spending 5 years in Alcatraz, he decides that if he's going to commit crimes, the risk had better be worth the punishment. He then proceeds to mastermind a brilliant criminal scheme to steal $2,000,000 from a local racetrack in which "no one will get hurt."
Killer's kiss: Prize-fighter Davy Gordon intervenes when private dancer Gloria Price is being attacked by her employer and lover Vincent Raphello. This brings the two together and they get involved with each other, which displeases Raphello.
General Note:
Based on the novel: "Clean Break" by Lionel White.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1956.
Special features: Disc 1. "James B. Harris" video interview with the producer; "Sterling Hayden" excerpted interviews with actor Sterling Hayden from the French television series Cinéma cinémas; "Polito on Thompson" author Robert Polito discusses crime noveist Jim Thompson; Theatrical trailer. Disc 2: "Killer's kiss" film; "Geoffrey O'Brien" discussion about Killer's kiss with critic Geoffrey O'Brien. Booklet: "Kubrick's clockwork" essay by Haden Guest; "Marie Windsor on the making of The killing" excerpts from an interview with actress.
Performers:
Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Ted DeCorsia, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook, Joe Sawyer, James Edwards, Timothy Carey, Kola Kwariani, Jay Adler, Tito Vuolo, Dorothy Adams, Herbert Ellis, James Griffith, Cecil Elliott, Joseph Turkel, Steve Mitchell, Mary Carroll, William Benedict, Charles R. Cane, Robert B. Williams, (Killer's kiss) Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane, Jerry Jarrett, Mike Dana, Felice Orlandi, Shaun O'Brien, Barbara Brand, David Vaughan, Alec Rubin, Ralph Roberts, Phil Stevenson, Arthur Feldman, Bill Funaro, Skippy Aldeman ; ballet danced by Ruth Sobotka.
Contents:
Disc 1. The killing / Harris-Kubrick presents ; screenplay by Stanley Kubrick ; dialogue by Jim Thompson ; produced by James B. Harris ; directed by Stanley Kubrick (1956 ; 84 min.) -- Disc 2. Killer's kiss / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; United Artists ; a Minotaur production ; story by Stanley Kubrick ; produced by Stanley Kubrick and Morris Bousel ; edited, photographed and directed by Stanley Kubrick (1955 ; ca. 67 min.).
Technical Details:
DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
Language:
English
Additional Language:
In English with optional English (SDH) subtitles.
Added Corporate Author:
Audience:
Not rated.
