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| Sterling Hayden (with his hand on the paper) goes over the plan with the gang in "The Killing" |
Sterling Hayden stars as Johnny Clay, a hood just released from jail, who decides to set up one last heist before leaving town with his girl, Fay.
Clay brings together a rag-tag group of guys, from a crooked cop to a sharpshooter, to help pull off a $2 million haul from a race track.
After plotting the robbery and feeling as if everything will go as planned, the theft begins to fall apart after one of the gang, a window teller at the track, begins to tell his gold-digging wife about the plan.
Other issues crop up, from a drunken money man to a racist exchange with a parking attendant, and Clay has to work hard to keep the plan together.
Stanley Kubrick, in his first major film, sets up a complicated heist film that is, while slightly non-linear, still a good story that has helped inspire other crime flicks over the years.
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