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The Killing

September 24, 2007
October 2007 Issue [1]
Parkway Theater, October 15
Peter Schilling [2]
Before Stanley Kubrick [3] dedicated himself to creating “serious” films that viewed humanity with a cold, clinical eye, he made The Killing [4] (1956), a tense little noir about a racetrack heist. Sterling Hayden [5] stars as the mastermind who sets the pot to boiling, and leads a cast of some of the best character actors ever to crawl out from under Hollywood’s rocks. Elisha Cook Jr. [6] plays a henpecked husband whose mouth is his undoing.
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Horse-faced Timothy Carey [9] and pro wrestler Kola Kwariani [10] are on hand to add some needed color. Pulp novelist Jim Thompson's [11] dialogue is a model of hardboiled efficiency. And Kubrick’s editing, which fixed the piece into a nonlinear maze, went on to influence a number of filmmakers, most notably Quentin Tarantino [12].

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[2] http://www.rakemag.com/authors/peter-schilling
[3] http://kubrickfilms.warnerbros.com/
[4] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049406/
[5] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001330/bio
[6] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0176879/bio
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[9] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0137046/
[10] http://www.ishipress.com/kwariani.htm
[11] http://www.popsubculture.com/pop/bio_project/jim_thompson.html
[12] http://www.tarantino.info/
[13] http://www.theparkwaytheater.com/