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.
Direction
Kubrick's ruthless precision before he had studio budgets.
Editing
Non-linear timeline that Tarantino stole wholesale.
Acting
Marie Windsor's Sherry: femme fatale with shark eyes.
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Sterling Hayden
Johnny Clay
Coleen Gray
Fay
Vince Edwards
Val Cannon
Jay C. Flippen
Marvin Unger
Ted de Corsia
Randy Kennan
Marie Windsor
Sherry Peatty
Elisha Cook Jr.
George Peatty
Joe Sawyer
Mike O'Reilly
James Edwards
Track Parking Attendant
Timothy Carey
Nikki Arcane
Jay Adler
Leo the Loanshark
Tito Vuolo
Joe Piano - motel manager
Dorothy Adams
Mrs. Ruthie O'Reilly
Herbert Ellis
2nd American Airlines Clerk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kubrick was only 27. Producer James B. Harris financed it after Kubrick's 'Killer's Kiss' flopped, letting him rewrite the script himself.
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