SWFS: The Killing (1956)

Selected date

Wednesday February 20

Selected time

7:00 PM  –  8:30 PM


SIX WEEK FILM SCHOOL

Career criminal Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) recruits a sharpshooter (Timothy Carey), a crooked police officer (Ted de Corsia), a bartender (Joe Sawyer) and a betting teller named George (Elisha Cook Jr.), among others, for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancee, Fay (Coleen Gray). But when George tells his restless wife, Sherry (Marie Windsor), about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. NR / 84 min. Free to attend.

Join SWFS curator Bill McBride to discuss the film following the screening.

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