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The Killing (1956)

Elisha Cook Jr. and Marie Windsor in The Killing (1956)

The Killing (1956) | Review by Gavin Lambert [Sight and Sound]

Now that its title has been changed from Bed of Fear (as it was called when I wrote about Stanley Kubrick’s last picture in Sight and Sound) to The Killing, one need really have no reservations at all. This shrewd, engrossing, complete-in-itself melodrama is the kind of film one had begun to think was no longer possible to make in Hollywood.

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