The Killing Blu-ray

Release Year: 1956

Runtime: 85 min

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Ted de Corsia

Studios: United Artists, Harris-Kubrick Productions

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.

Special Features:

New digital restoration

with uncompressed monaural soundtrack.

New video interview with producer

James B. Harris.

Excerpted interviews with actor Sterling Hayden from the French television series Cinéma cinémas

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New video interview with poet and author Robert Polito about writer Jim Thompson

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Restored high-definition digital transfer of Stanley Kubrick's 1955 noir feature Killer's Kiss

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New video appreciation of Killer's Kiss featuring film critic Geoffrey O’Brien

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Trailers

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Technical Specifications:

• 84 MINUTES
• BLACK & WHITE
• MONAURAL
• 1.66:1 ASPECT RATIO