The Ultimate Raid

the Ultimate Raid ( The Killing ) is the third feature-length film of Stanley Kubrick, in black and white, left in 1956.

Synopsis

Johnny Clay, recently left prison, organizes a break-in to seize the case of a racecourse one day of great multitude.

With two million dollars to the key, the accomplices do not miss and all wish the success of the operation.

The operation is a success, the timing is perfect; but it is without counting on the indiscretion of one of the accomplices as well as the cupidity and the duplicity of his wife.

The release of the drama will put at evil all this beautiful machination…

Data sheet

Distribution

  • Sterling Hayden

  • Coleen Gray
  • Vince Edwards
  • Jay C. Flippen
  • Elisha Cook Jr.
  • Marie Windsor.

Comments

the Ultimate raid had an enormous success so much commercial which criticizes at its exit and propelled Stanley Kubrick at the top of her glory.

The history is based on the news “Clean Break” of Lionel White. The rights of adaptation to the cinema were initially reserved by Frank Sinatra which had posed an option but gave up it finally. It is then Jim Thompson who had the sense of smell to take them again.

The film marries the form of the account which uses many flashback, hustling the chronology and from multiple points of view; this way of proceeding, used in Rashomon of Kurosawa, will influence Quentin Tarantino for his film Reservoir Dogs .

The film also made know Stanley Kubrick in the mediums of the cinema and Kirk Douglas, high-speed motorboat of her following film, the Paths of glory or Marlon Brando noticed its potential on this occasion.

Sources

  • DVD the Ultimate raid
  • Interview of James B. Harris (Co-producer of Doctor Folamour) in the no-claims bonus of the DVD Doctor Folamour

See too

  • Card IMDb

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