History Film / TheKilling

'''The Killing'' is a 1956 {{Film Noir}} by Creator/StanleyKubrick that follows the last heist of career criminal Johnny Clay (Creator/SterlingHayden). With 2 million dollars at stake in the racetrack counting room Clay sets up an elaborate plan to get the money and get everyone involved their share. At the time of the heist the film splits off to show the perspective of every character involved in the heist.

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'''''The Killing''''' is a 1956 {{Film Noir}} by Creator/StanleyKubrick that follows the last heist of career criminal Johnny Clay (Creator/SterlingHayden). With 2 million dollars at stake in the racetrack counting room Clay sets up an elaborate plan to get the money and get everyone involved their share. At the time of the heist the film splits off to show the perspective of every character involved in the heist.

'''''The Killing''''' is a 1956 {{Film Noir}} by Creator/StanleyKubrick that follows the last heist of career criminal Johnny Clay. With 2 million dollars at stake in the racetrack counting room Clay sets up an elaborate plan to get the money and get everyone involved their share. At the time of the heist the film splits off to show the perspective of every character involved in the heist.

* FiveBadBand:
** BigBad: Johnny Clay.
** TheDragon: Nikki.
** TheEvilGenius: Randy Kennan.
** TheBrute: Maurice.
** TheDarkChick: George Peatty, Marvin Unger.
** SixthRangerTraitor: Sherry Peatty.

'''The Killing''' is a 1956 {{Film Noir}} by Creator/StanleyKubrick that follows the last heist of career criminal Johnny Clay. With 2 million dollars at stake in the racetrack counting room Clay sets up an elaborate plan to get the money and get everyone involved their share. At the time of the heist the film splits off to show the perspective of every character involved in the heist.

* AntiHero: Johnny Clay

* TheBartender: Mike O'Reilly

** BigBad: Johnny Clay
** TheDragon: Nikki
** TheEvilGenius: Randy Kennan
** TheBrute: Maurice
** TheDarkChick: George Peatty, Marvin Unger
** SixthRangerTraitor: Sherry Peatty

* HenpeckedHusband: George

-->"None of these men are criminals in the usual sense. They've all got jobs, they all live seemingly normal, decent lives. But they've got their problems and they've all got a little larceny in them." - Johnny Clay

* TheStoic: Johnny

* StarMakingRole: For Kubrick, whose previous work consisted of a few documentary shorts and two ultra-low-budget features. This film got Hollywood's attention.

* YourCheatingHeart: Sherry

* GeniusBruiser: Maurice Oboukhoff, played by professional wrestler Kola Kwariani, spends his time playing chess when he isn't holding his own against 6 or mooks.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Johnny at the end, when his entire scheme is blown and he finds himself being confronted by two undercover policemen. His girlfriend urges him to run, but Johnny shamefacedly gives it up right there.]]

* BillingDisplacement: Colleen Gray and Vince Edwards have noticeably less screen time than some of the other supporting players, but are billed just after Sterling Hayden and the title; likely this is because their names were more prominent at the time.

* DirtyCop: Randy Kennan

* [[MalevolentMaskedMen Malevolent Masked Man]]: Johnny Clay wears a clown mask and hat at the climax of the caper.
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: Sherry. She had poor George wrapped around her finger the entire time.
* {{Narrator}}

''The Killing'' is a 1956 {{Film Noir}} by Creator/StanleyKubrick that follows the last heist of career criminal Johnny Clay. With 2 million dollars at stake in the racetrack counting room Clay sets up an elaborate plan to get the money and get everyone involved their share. At the time of the heist the film splits off to show the perspective of every character involved in the heist.

* AlasPoorVillain: Johnny at the end, when his entire scheme is blown and he finds himself being confronted by two undercover policemen. His girlfriend urges him to run, but Johnny shamefacedly gives it up right there.

** TheDragon: Marvin Unger
** TheEvilGenius: Nikki, Randy Kennan

** TheDarkChick: George Peatty

''The Killing'' is a 1956 {{Film Noir}} by {{Stanley Kubrick}} that follows the last heist of career criminal Johnny Clay. With 2 million dollars at stake in the racetrack counting room Clay sets up an elaborate plan to get the money and get everyone involved their share. At the time of the heist the film splits off to show the perspective of every character involved in the heist.

* FilmNoir: [[StanleyKubrick Stanley Kubrick's]] take.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Johnny at the end, when his entire scheme is blown and he finds himself being confronted by two undercover policemen. His girlfriend urges him to run, but Johnny shamefacedly gives it up right there.]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Randy Kennan, Sherry, Val, and Val's gunman.]]

* BerserkButton: George gets two of these: When Sherry is implying to him that [[spoiler:Johnny raped her]], and when [[spoiler:Sherry's lover, Val, tries to stick the criminals up, demanding to know where the money is as well as George the "jerk." George angrily responds with, "The jerk's right here!" and guns down Val and his assistant gunman.]]

* HeyItsThatGuy: The cast is full of this, with the usual supporting crime film players, including Elisha Cook Jr., Ted de Corsia, and Timothy Carey.

* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: Only Johnny and Fay survive to the end of the movie, but Johnny is presumably captured by the police to pay the price for his crime. Maurice also lives, but not without a beating from about ''eight'' cops that he ''almost'' wins.]]

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: In hindsight, George actually [[spoiler:kills the most people in the movie, shooting his wife's lover and his assistant gunman, as well as his own wife as revenge for her lurid affair.]]

* SexyDiscretionShot: Done with Johnny and his lover, Sherry and [[spoiler:her lover]], and Sherry and George.

* BerserkButton: When Sherry is implying to George that [[spoiler:Johnny raped her]], you can visibly see the hatred creeping across George's face. He even carries around [[spoiler:a pistol later on, hoping to shoot Johnny.]]
** George also gets another one when [[spoiler:Sherry's actual lover, Val, bursts in to the hideout and sticks everybody up, demanding to know where George is. A fuming George then emerges from a back room with a gun and shoots down both Val and his assistant gunman. A shoot-out ensues and everybody but George dies; George gets shot in the face and makes his way back to his and Sherry's apartment, where he kills Sherry before dying himself.]]

* DirtyCop: Randy Kennan.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Bound to come up with Elisha Cook, Jr., who has played ''very'' similar roles in other films; see ISV below.
** A sinister Timothy Carey as the racetrack sniper.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Elisha Cook, Jr. at his most Ineffectually Symapthetically Villainous.

* TheStoic: Johnny.

* ChekovsGun: Sebastian the poodle.

* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: Sherry. She had poor George around her finger the entire time.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Sherry, Val, and Val's gunman.]]

* FilmNoir: [[StanleyKubrick Stankley Kubrick's]] take.

* BerserkButton: When Sherry is implying that [[spoiler:Johnny raped her]] to George, you can visibly see the hatred creeping across George's face. He even carries around [[spoiler:a pistol later on, hoping to shoot Johnny.]]

* BerserkButton: When Sherry is implying that Johnny raped her to George, you can see the hatred creeping across his face...

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Elisha Cook, Jr. at his most Ineffectually Symapthetically Villainous.
* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: Only Johnny and Fay survive to the end of the movie, but Johnny is presumably captured by the police to pay the price for his crime.]]

* SexyDiscretionShot: Done three times.

* DirtyCop: Randy Kennan

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Elisha Cook Junior at his most Ineffectually Symapthetically Villainous.